Danielle Brooks Talks Playing (and Singing as) Gospel Great Mahalia: 'I've Been Soaking Her Up for Years'

The churchy feeling that Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia inspires is especially fitting, because that’s where Danielle Brooks first discovered the gospel great. The Juilliard grad, who is best known for her role as prison inmate Taystee on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, grew up in a small church in Simpsonville, South Carolina. And that’s […]