The Actor Jenifer Lewis: Mother, Activist, Hurricane
Jenifer Lewis is known as the \u201cMother of Black Hollywood\u201d for good reason; her screen progeny have included Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Tupac Shakur. In her latest turn, she\u2019s playing the alpha boss of a home-shopping network on the Showtime series \u201cI Love That For You.\u201d It\u2019s no surprise that Lewis keeps getting cast as formidable ladies\u2014the roles come naturally to her, as you\u2019ll hear in her conversation with the New Yorker contributor Michael Schulman. Lewis\u2019s new memoir is called \u201cWalking in My Joy: In These Streets.\u201d