With a career spanning over thirty years, Viola Davis is tackling a new venture to bring awareness to diabetes within the black community.

Davis is no stranger to us; whether she’s getting away with murder on our screens or getting away with a slay in a photograph on our timelines, the actress has become a constant in our lives. Given her fame and status, she’s now made it her duty to give voice to debunk the stigmas associated with diabetes by narrating a documentary called A Touch of Sugar.

The film is something that hits home for Davis because her two sisters were diagnosed with the disease, her aunt died from it and she herself was diagnosed as being prediabetic.

Diabetes is currently an epidemic in America; 30 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes and 84 million have prediabetes and aren’t even aware of it. “It’s affecting our world and our country,” says the award-winning actress. Davis says she felt it was time to “give voice to this issue and to debunk the myths and stigma that are associated with diabetes.”