Tolliver's book A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics unpacks how a groundbreaking fundraiser by Chisholm and Carroll in 1972 brought together ...

The singer and actress Diahann Carroll was as famous for her elegance as she was for her acting and her voice. She died today at her home in Los Angeles from complications of breast cancer. She was 84 ...

For more than 50 years, actress and singer Diahann Carroll has been breaking barriers. She was the first black woman to win a Tony for best actress, and the first black woman to star in her own TV ...