" in 1990, it was a dream come true. But the road to her acting accomplishments was paved with its share of trials, she says."Y&R took a lot of heat when they hired us — one of the assistants in the office showed me some very scary letters from audience members who were very angry that they show now had Black people on it — some really nasty letters filled with racist names you couldn't print now.
"In fact, no jobs that I'd ever had from 1977 until then ever had any hair or makeup people who knew how to handle Black skin or hair. I definitely had feelings of not belonging or feeling isolated when the productions didn't have the basic items that would have made me feel included and wanted in those productions," she said.
"I was the only person of colour in the program," she said."And for most of my career until around 1990, I was usually the only actor of colour in any job I did, and there were certainly no people of colour behind the camera on those jobs. I saw no one that looked like me in the industry."