370K views · 15K reactions | We mourn the loss of pioneering actress Diahann Carroll, the Tony Award winner and first African American woman to star in her own television series. This interview was conducted in 2017, by director Yoruba Richen for the forthcoming program, “How it Feels to Be Free.” | American Masters | Facebook

“The Lady” was a female pioneer with “Julia,” her own show on NBC-TV (1968-1971). She was, like Lena Horne, beautiful and enormously brave in the face of a predominately racist society that was struggling with itself to overcome its inevitable internal conflict among a new generation of Americans – Karma, as it was known in the ancient world of the wise Essenes. Diahann Carroll, the star of her own television series during a time when very few African Americans could get a job at a television ne