“Janiyah did scare me a lot…,” Henson told PEOPLE ahead of the movie's release. “I was drawn to this character because I love giving a voice to the voiceless.

As Janiyah wrestles with the heartbreaking loss of her daughter, tension escalates outside the bank where she's holed up. An FBI extraction team moves in, ready to storm the building, ...

EMTs Bacarri Stanley and Michael Bache sprang into action when a 911 call led them to an unexpected twin delivery ...

Janiyah actually does identify this moment as her breaking point. Specifically, the character has dialogue wherein she says that something inside her "broke" and she has not felt the same since.

Janiyah Wiltkinson (Taraji P. Henson) is a single mother working two jobs, and struggling to provide for her young daughter, Aria, who is sick and has seizures.

Here's why you should watch: 1. Okay, let's start with the basics: Straw follows Janiyah Wilkinson, a single mother who's just trying to take care of her sick daughter. Despite working two jobs ...

The new Tyler Perry movie on Netflix, Straw, is a tense, emotional thriller that takes over the course of one very bad day for protagonist Janiyah Wiltkinson. Played by Oscar-nominated actor ...

However, after watching the movie over again, many Black folks on TikTok now believe that Janiyah's daughter may have been all along--meaning from birth--and that she never existed in the first place.

Janiyah was a 3-year-old girl who died of severe injuries from child abuse. Gregory Parker and Crystal Brooks, Janiyah’s mother, were charged in connection to the toddler’s death.