The Secret Life of Bees

…and the City and in The Secret Life of Bees, alongside Queen Latifah. Despite widespread career success, Hudson’s year took a tragic turn when her mother, brother, and nephew were found murdered in Chicago in October. She tearfully paid tribute to them in February 2009 when she accepted the Grammy…

…The Nanny Diaries (2007), and The Secret Life of Bees (2008). She directed one of five segments that made up the cable TV movie Five (2011), about women living with breast cancer. Keys was also a coach (2016–18) on the television singing competition show The Voice. She hosted the Grammy…

…2008 Queen Latifah starred in The Secret Life of Bees, a drama about a white girl taken in by a family of beekeeping African American women in 1960s-era South Carolina. She later appeared in the romantic comedies Valentine’s Day (2010), Just Wright (2010), and The Dilemma (2011). In Joyful Noise…