Biff_Poindexter
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Barack and Michelle Obama Pay Tribute to 'Trailblazer' Cicely Tyson: We Will 'Miss Her Dearly'
"Just by walking into a room, she had this way of elevating everyone around her," Michelle Obama wrote of the late actress
"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 viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96."
Simply put, she was one of the best to ever do it.....