“With heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon. It has to have some real substance for me to do it,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. I grew up in an area that was called the slums at the time,” Tyson said at the time. “It’s important that they see and hear history from Miss Jane’s point of view,” Tyson told The New York Times. Tyson played his secretary, making her the first Black woman to have a continuing role in a dramatic television series.

Source: thestar January 29, 2021 00:55 UTC