NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who earned 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 viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died.
She was 96. A onetime model, Tyson began her screen career with bit parts but gained fame in the early 1970s when Black women were finally starting to get starring roles.
She earned an honorary Oscar in 2018 and won two Emmys for playing the 110-year-old former slave in the 1974 television drama “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.”
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — The jump in coronavirus cases that came after the holidays appears to have peaked in Delaware. The News Journal reported Thursday that COVID-19 hospitalizations are at the lowest they've been since Dec. 6. As of late Wednesday, 333 people were in the hospital. That's down from 474 on Jan. 12. But the number of COVID-related deaths has continued to climb. Delaware reported three new deaths Thursday, […]
