The new year is kicking off with a flurry of new shows and seasons, but few will be as good in the early part of 2018 as Freeform‘s January 3-debuting Grown-ish. A spinoff of ABC’s Emmy ...

ESSENCE: You took over the reins of Grown-ish halfway through its story, becoming the new protagonist of the series when Zoey [Yara Shahidi] graduated and pursued a fashion career in NYC.