A chocolaty sweet reprieve from the lily-white face of mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, Diahann Carroll crushed color barriers, pioneering a proper path for future blacktresses. Di made her soulful debut in the all-colorful cast of Carmen Jones (1954), working with the delightfully dusky Dorothy Dandridge. Putting her lovely lungs and lively, long legs to good use, Carroll sang and danced in musical greats such as … Join Mr Skin to read her entire Biography