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Cicely Tyson's radiant power (opinion)
CNN
1/30/2021
Opinion by Sherrilyn Ifill
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Cicely Tyson in a scene from the film 'The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman', 1974. (Photo by Columbia Broadcasting System/Getty Images)
For Black women of a certain age, Cicely Tyson, who died this week, holds a very particular place as an artist.
Many of us were introduced to her when we were at the age where girls often feel ugly, awkward, self-critical. For brown-skinned Black girls in the 1970s, the African-ness of our looks left our beauty, or even our aspirations to beauty, in debate. The color of our skin, our broad noses, the texture of our hair -- despite the strong "Black is Beautiful" moment -- were not the standard of beauty presented on television, where we saw ourselves only rarely in prominent roles, especially in the ubiquitous television movies of the time.

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