Sun-Times columnist reflects on the late great Emmy and Tony Award winning actress Cicely Tyson. In one of her last visits to Chicago, Tyson keynoted the DuSable Museum of African American History’s Annual Night of 100 Stars Gala, held Oct. 12, 2018, at the Near South Side Marriott Marquis.
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As we age, we become more cognizant that heroes and she-roes revered since childhood will not be on this earth forever. But Cicely Tyson, “Ms. Cicely” to so many, was everything.
This death made me stop, my mouth frozen in “Oh no!” Memories of her screen gifts to the world, and to a young Black girl growing up in a segregated Chicago, came flooding back.