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Cicely Tyson, Emmy and Tony Award winning actress, dies at 96
Cicely Tyson attends the 2019 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/WireImage)NEW YORK (AP) - Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actress who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in "Sounder," a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," died Thursday at age 96.Tyson's death was announced by her family, via her manager Larry Thompson, who did not immediately provide additional details."With heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon.