{"id":217963,"date":"2021-01-28T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217963"},"modified":"2021-01-29T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:08:28","slug":"actress-cicely-tyson-passes-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=217963","title":{"rendered":"Actress Cicely Tyson passes, 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-217964\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tyson-Cicely.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"140\" \/>(AP) \u2014 Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper\u2019s wife in \u201cSounder,\u201d won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers\u2019 hearts in \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,\u201d has died. She was 96. A onetime model, Tyson began her screen career with bit parts but gained fame in the early 1970s when Black women were finally starting to get starring roles. Besides her Oscar nomination, she won two Emmys for playing the 110-year-old former slave in the 1974 television drama \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper\u2019s wife in \u201cSounder,\u201d won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers\u2019 hearts in \u201cThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,\u201d has died. She was 96. A onetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218005,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217963\/revisions\/218005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}