One of the great actresses of the 1970s—and that’s if you’re drawing up a list of, say, three—didn’t have many big starring roles in ...

At five feet, three inches, 93-year-old acting legend Cicely Tyson may be a petite woman, but her presence has always been larger than life—as was the hat she wore to pay tribute to friend Aretha ...

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Cicely Tyson, the iconic, legendary actress has starred in some memorable classics including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, “Roots,” The Women of Brewster Place and my personal favorite ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill and Hillary Clinton, actor-director Tyler Perry, and singer Valerie Simpson of Ashford & Simpson are among those who attended a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson. Mourners ...

Tony winners James Earl Jones (“You Can’t Take It With You”) and Cicely Tyson (“The Trip To Bountiful”) will lead a new production of D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Gin Game” this fall ...