Pizza guy Alex, aspiring singer with a troubled past, inherits home after father's death. Against advice, he houses manipulative roommate Shane, a fighter who leads Alex down a perilous path risking sobriety and lives.

Covering topics such as "It's Jesus or Jail," "Marriage, the Hard Way," "Children: The Gift You Can't Give Back," and "All the Things I Don't Know ... And All the Things I Definitely Do," stand-up comedienne, actress, and ABC's "The View" co-host Shepherd comically chronicles her struggles to keep up with the many roles she (and other women like her) must play in today's world.

In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...

In August of 1987, new parents Joy White and Carl Tyson took their 19-day-old daughter Carlina to Harlem Hospital in New York with a high fever. Ann Pettway, who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a child of her own, posed as a hospital nurse and walked out of the hospital with Carlina hidden from view. While Joy and Carl desperately searched for their daughter over the years, Pettway was raising Carlina in Bridgeport, Connecticut,...

Pregnant for the second time by her father and abused by her mother, Harlem teenager Precious Jones finds hope through a counselor and a teacher at her new school.

As Victoria interviews the governor's candidly opportunistic wife, Elka goes on trial and attempts to sway the verdict by flirting with an elderly juror.

The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life...