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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

When actor and producer Diara Kilpatrick was a little girl growing up in Detroit, she'd snuggle up on the

couch with her grandmother to watch murder mystery shows like Macklock and Colombo and

Perry Mason. And while she took note that all of the women in her life seemed to be obsessed with these kind of

shows, she never saw black women driving the narrative.

It's part of the inspiration for her new series, Diara from Detroit, which recently premiered on B-E-T-plus.

Described as a home girl whodunit, D'Arra from Detroit is a dark comedy about a public

school teacher going through a divorce who decides to hit the dating scene.

She has an amazing first date with the guy she met on tender, but soon after he ghosts her.

And there begins the hunt to find out why. Diara's search leads her. And there begins the hunt to find out why.

Diara's search leads her to a decades old mystery and the crime underbelly of Detroit.

In addition to this latest series, Diara is an actress, writer, and producer, who created and

starred in the ABC Digital Original Satirical Comedy, American Cocoa, for which he was nominated

for an Emmy Award.

She also starred in three seasons of the HBO Period Drama

Series Perry Mason. Dara Kilpatrick, welcome to Fresh Air. Thank you so much.

I am so happy to be here. I'm really happy to have you and I just want to say this work is unlike anything I've ever seen.

So I'm about to use a lot of words to describe it.

It's smart and funny, while also interweaving some very serious topics like the epidemic of missing black children and the social and economic challenges of Detroit.

You also tackle divorce and friendship and betrayal and police corruption.

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