Claiming Her Power: Patina Miller Wants Raq to 'Get Everything She Deserves in This Man's World' in Starz's 'Raising Kanan'

With her bombshell blowout, fur coats and stiletto boots, Patina Miller's Raquel Thomas takes the air out of every room she enters. The hardened matriarch and mother to Kanan in Starz's "Raising Kanan" has had to work twice as hard to earn her stripes in the drug game in Queens and gain the respect of the men around her. "Raq is the type of woman that will put her head down. She is always two to three steps ahead of everyone," Miller told TheWrap for our latest digital cover story. "She goes into fix it mode. She is not one to wallow in any given situation." Set in the 1990s, . . .