The original What’s Happening!! cast featured Ernest Lee Thomas as Raj Thomas, Haywood Nelson as Dwayne Nelson, Fred Berry as "Rerun" Stubbs, Mable King as “Mama” Thomas, Danielle Spencer as Dee ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Danielle Spencer, the former child star best known for her role as the ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Most of the ‘What’s Happening!!’ cast paid tribute to Danielle Spencer after she died in 2025. Find out where the former co-stars are today. The What’s Happening!! cast has been through a lot since ...

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 ...

He considered her a real-life sister. What’s Happening!! star Ernest Lee Thomas posted a loving tribute following his “sister” Danielle Spencer’s death at age 60. On Aug. 13, the ’70s sitcom star ...

Danielle Spencer, who played charming little sister Dee in the Seventies sitcom What’s Happening!!, died on Aug. 11. The former child actress who later pursued a career in veterinary care was 60.

What’s Happening!! was one of the most beloved sitcoms of the 1970s. Featuring a core cast of six actors, the popular ABC sitcom focused on a group of Black teens living in Los Angeles. The series ...

Most of the 'What's Happening!!' cast paid tribute to Danielle Spencer after she died in 2025. Find out where the former co-stars are today. Through the end of her life, Danielle remained friends with ...

Danielle Spencer, who portrayed Raj’s sassy younger sister on the 1970s sitcom What’s Happening!! died Monday, her former co-star Haywood Nelson revealed on Instagram. She was 60. “Dr. Dee, our ...

Danielle Spencer, the actress best known for playing the quick-witted little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” died on Monday at a hospital in Richmond, Va., her brother ...