When Diahann Carroll received the call in the 1980s asking her to join the cast of Dynasty, she had one condition. “I didn’t want to be on the show unless I could be b****y,” Diahann said. “The first Black b**** on television!”
The life of Diahann included many more momentous firsts, too. The star, reared in Harlem, N.Y., was the first African-American woman to win a Tony Award. On Julia, Diahann starred as the first Black professional woman at the center of a TV series. “It took a while for me to understand how important what I did was,” Diahann told Closer in 2017. “I am very proud of it.”
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