Cicely Tyson (1924–2021), award-winning star of “Sounder,” “The Help”

Cicely Tyson (1924–2021), award-winning star of “Sounder,” “The Help”

(Legacy) Cicely Tyson, the award-winning actress whose film, television, and theater roles included “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” “Roots,” “King,” “Sounder,” and “The Help,” died Thursday, her family announced. Strength and dignity Tyson’s choice of film and television roles helped shatter Hollywood’s African American stereotypes throughout the 1970s, as she insisted on playing characters that allowed her to radiate strength and dignity. “What you put there is everlasting on film,” she told The Washington Post as she reflected on her career in 2015. “And there was no way in the world that I was going to do something that I thought was degrading to myself as a woman, myself as a Black woman, to women in general, to my race of people for future generations.” Also checkout www.spatehiphopvideos.com, www.spatehiphoppodcast.com, www.spatehiphopnews.com,www.themusicconsultants.com, www.thebassguitarplayer.com, www.musicmarketing.biz, www.spatemedia.info, www.antoineking.com, www.spatedigital.biz,www.talentbuyersconnect.com