How Nicco Annan created the cult character of P-Valley’s revolutionary Uncle Clifford

Photo Credit: Juan Veloz for Native Son

P-Valley brings the heat. The sizzling original series on STARZ follows the lives of dancers working down in the Dirty Delta at The Pynk, a popular strip club in Mississippi.

The club’s owner, Uncle Clifford—played by the NAACP Image Award-winning actor Nicco Annan—has revolutionized television.

As a non-binary main character on the popular cable television show, the role of Uncle Clifford has simultaneously become a fictional icon, controversial figure, and hero, shifting both the stereotypes and possibilities of Black queer identity in Hollywood. 

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