Ms. Tyson was nominated for an Academy Award for Sounder. Her film credits include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Fried Green Tomatoes, Because of Winn-Dixie, Hoodlum, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion, Why Did I Get Married Too?, The Help, Alex Cross, Last Flag Flying, and in 2020, A Fall from Grace directed by Tyler Perry. On November 18, 2018, Ms. Tyson received an Honorary Oscar at the Motion Picture Academy’s Governors Awards.
Since 1995, Ms. Tyson has served as the guiding force of the Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts. This $143 million institution of academic and creative expression in East Orange, New Jersey, serves twelve hundred students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. As both a screen legend and a cultural icon, Ms. Tyson continues to develop her art by taking on new roles and opportunities.
MICHELLE BURFORD served as Ms. Cicely Tyson’s collaborative writer. She is a number one New York Times bestselling author who has collaborated on ten memoirs. She is also a founding editor of O, The Oprah Magazine and a former Essence magazine editor. A native of Phoenix, she resides in New York City.
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Excerpt here from “Strange Fruit,” recorded by Abel Meeropol in 1937.
Excerpt here from “Paul Robeson” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Excerpt here from “Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield” by Maya Angelou from I Shall Not Be Moved. Bantam, 1991.
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