Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in ...

NEW YORK - Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV ...

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in Sounder, a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in The ...

With acclaimed roles in the groundbreaking 1972 film Sounder and the 1977 miniseries Roots, Tyson helped pave the way for more complex and layered Black storytelling. But it wasn't an easy path.

Cicely refused to take a role that would not better humanity.” Tyson was married to jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis from 1981 to 1988 and Davis, who died in 1991, put her on the cover of his ...

Actress Cicely Tyson credited life as a vegetarian for her long-term health in her final interview conducted on the eve of her death. The screen icon conducted a pre-taped virtual interview with ...

LOS ANGELES — Cicely Tyson was a Black actor who knocked down doors so other women of colour could walk through them. With dignified grace, Tyson strategically selected powerful roles with an intent ...

With dignified grace, Tyson strategically selected powerful roles with an intent to elevate the perception of Black actors in films such as “Sounder” and on TV with “The Autobiography of ...