DEPARTMENTS: OUT & ABOUT Cicely Tyson has always been ahead of her time, and by dint of sheer will and faith she has forced the modern era to finally catch up with her. But it was with her Oscar-nominated turn in the 1972 film Sounder that Cicely became the embodiment of Black womanhood and dignity. In recent award acceptance speeches, Cicely has referred to all the contemporaries she has lost, from family to lifelong friends; at the 2013 Tonys she wondered aloud why she had been spared. [Extracted from the article]
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