Cicely Tyson, has died at age 96 (1/28/2021) Rest In Peace
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Rest in peace, and condolences to her family & friends.
Simply a remarkable interview to watch... classy, elegant, and well spoken to the very end at 96... just one incredible lady and career impact on so many. Rest easy queen.
RIP to another legendary icon..I was watching something on how she never took any role that portrayed black women in a negative manner..because of this..she did a lot of stage plays for a period if time..I respect her for doing that..especially back then..Black Queen..Rest in Peace...
This one really hurt. I never met her but I've watched her movies my entire life. Roots, A Women called Moses, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Sounder and Hoodlum are some of the movies that she starred in. She reminds me of my nana, the way she carried herself with class, and elegance. Rest in Power Queen Mother Cicely Tyson.
RIP
Class act all the way.
Watch Cicely Tyson celebrate life in final interview before her death
See legendary actress Cicely Tyson give her final interview before her death on 'Live with Kelly and Ryan.'
Watch Cicely Tyson celebrate life in final interview before her death
Legendary actress taped Live with Kelly and Ryan hours before she died.
By Joey Nolfi
January 29, 2021 at 10:20 AM EST
Cicely Tyson's final interview was a fitting tribute to her legendary impact on pop culture.
Recorded on Wednesday — hours before her death Thursday at age 96 — the Hollywood icon and trailblazer's last talk show appearance on Friday's Live with Kelly and Ryan featured a touching discussion about Tyson's life, career, and her recently published memoir, Just As I Am.
Tyson began the interview with a story about a stranger predicting her future success when she was a baby. "This woman stopped [my mother] and started playing with me, and turned to my mother and said: 'Take care of this child. She has a sixth sense. She's going to make you very proud one day. She will take care of you in your old age.'"
She went on to tell hosts Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest about her pervasive shyness as a child, which she speculated led to her becoming such an observant person and, therefore, an accomplished actress who was able to naturally absorb characters. One such character, Rebecca in the 1972 film Sounder, scored Tyson her first competitive Oscar nomination in a stroke of fate.
"I never thought that I would be nominated for an Oscar. Never. But, I used to view the event every year. One night, I watched it and I said, 'I am going to sit in that front row one day.' And I certainly ended up doing that," Tyson said, explaining that the role came to her after a friend, Gloria Foster, passed on the role because they didn't offer her enough money. "In the meantime, however, I started working on the role of Rebecca.... finally my manager, Larry, came to me and said, 'Well, someone else got the role. She turned it down.' I said, 'Because it doesn't belong to her; it belongs to me."
Tyson would go on to receive an honorary Oscar in 2019 for her groundbreaking career in Hollywood that opened doors for Black performers, including notable turns in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman on top of becoming the first Black woman to have a recurring role on a drama series in East Side/West Side.
"I'm devastated. My heart is just broken. I loved you so much!! You were everything to me!" Tyson's How to Get Away with Murder costar, Viola Davis, wrote of the actress' passing in an Instagram post on Thursday. "You made me feel loved and seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls. You gave me permission to dream....because it was only in my dreams that I could see the possibilities in myself."
Watch a portion of Tyson's final interview above.
RIP
Rest In Peace
RIP Queen 
Rest in eternal peace...
She had a lot of toxic mammy friends like Oprah, Gayle, but I never ran across her trying to come at me, nothing that I noticed. She probably wanted to succeed based on her abilities rather than racial cannibalism. This is how the old-timers did things back in the day because there was no hierarchy based on how depraved and toxic you were to the black community.
Rest in peace
Rest in peace
RIP and thank you for being the example of what a lady truly should be! Peaceful journey!
2 year old Cicely Tyson (right) along with her Nevisian Parents William Tyson, a carpenter , and Frederica Huggins-Tyson a home domestic along with her brother and lil sister in 1927
2 year old Cicely Tyson (right) along with her Nevisian Parents William Tyson, a carpenter , and Frederica Huggins-Tyson a home domestic along with her brother and lil sister in 1927
2 year old Cicely Tyson (right) along with her Nevisian Parents William Tyson, a carpenter , and Frederica Huggins-Tyson a home domestic along with her brother and lil sister in 1927