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Cicely Tyson, pioneering Black actress, dies at age of 96

Cicely Tyson, the groundbreaking 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 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died Thursday at age 96.

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