Danielle Spencer, the actress who played Raj’s sarcastic little sister Deadra “Dee” Thomas on What’s Happening!!, died Monday. She was 60 years old. The news was posted by her former What’s Happening!

What’s Happening!! was a sitcom loosely based on the film Cooley High, following a group of teens working and living in Watts, an L.A. neighborhood. It was Bud Yorkin’s second series after he split ...

The actor, who grew up in the Bronx, later became a veterinarian. Her younger brother, jazz trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, announced on Instagram that she died of cancer. Pelt watched Spencer, 60, take her ...