Cicely Tyson remains one of the most respected talents in American theater and film history. From her starring role on Broadway in The Blacks to the Emmy-nominated film A Lesson Before Dying, her work has garnered critical acclaim for more than sixty years. She received two Emmys for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress for The Trip to Bountiful. She was the first black woman to receive an honorary Oscar, and in 2020, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Cicely Tyson also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, the prestigious NAACP Spingarn Medal, the organization’s highest honor, in 2010, as well as many other honors. She died on January 28, 2021. She was 96.