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Cicely Tyson, Pioneering Award-Winning Actor, Dies At 96 (CBS LA)

Cicely Tyson, a groundbreaking Black actor nominated for an Oscar in 1973 for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," died Thursday at the age of 96.

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