The legendary actress won an Emmy and Tony Award and was the first Black actress to receive an honorary Oscar.

The legendary actress along with Richard Roundtree and music icon Dionne Warwick will receive lifetime achievements awards in the arts.

Thursday night, the Democratic National Convention culminated a presidential primary season that saw a self-proclaimed billionaire rise to prominence on the strength of bombastic rhetoric, thinly veiled racially charged comments, and the idea that America is broken and needs to be made “great again.” The same election cycle that produced Donald Trump has also produced Hillary Clinton, who […]

It’s only March, but Uzo Aduba is officially winning at the game of life in 2015! Whatever you did last night probably wasn’t as cool as…

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Annalise’s mother, played by Cicely Tyson, showed up to give her the business. Annalise and her students took on a new client—a female doctor who…

There a few things more satisfying than shutting down ignorance, and Cicely Tyson will never forget the moment she got to confront racism and turn…

Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington recently sat down for an in-depth interview with the New York Times, where they discuessed series issues (like race relations…

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The African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) honored the special achievements of iconic actress Cicely Tyson, vanguard film studio Screen Gems and the renowned Pan African…

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I missed the first one.  When Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as our first African-American president with an agenda that I believed passionately in,…

“BET Honors” aired last night, and paid tribute to actress Cicely Tyson, jazz legend Herbie Hancock, actor Jamie Foxx, supermodel and philanthropist Iman, historian Lonnie Busch and publisher Linda Johnson Rice. “I’m told that I have one minute,” said Tyson upon reaching the microphone and accepting the award for theatrical arts presented to her by […]

Yesterday, just days before the Oscars, ESSENCE magazine honored the best and brightest of Black Women in Hollywood. Click here to see who was honored.