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5. The show had the only African-American with a recurring role on a nighttime serial

In season four, Diahann Carroll joined the cast as Dominique Deveraux, and she hoped that it would help break through some of the color lines. She said: “They’ve done everything. They’ve done incest, homosexuality, murder. I think they’re slowly inching their way toward interracial. I want to be wealthy and ruthless. I want to be the first black b*tch on television.” You could say she was the prototype for Empire’s Cookie.

Dianne Carroll on Dynasty
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