She starred on the 1970s sitcom as Dee, the younger sister offering a steady stream of deadpan roasts of her big brother Roger “Raj” Thomas and his friends.

Danielle Spencer, who played the precocious youngster Dee Thomas on the 1970s ABC sitcom What’s Happening!!, has died. She was 60. Spencer died Monday in a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, her What’s Happening!! co-star Haywood Nelson told The Hollywood Reporter .

She played a witty teenager on one of the first American television shows that centered on young Black people.