Cicely Tyson
- blacks on television
- Cicely Tyson
- Roots
- LeVar Burton
- Black History Month
- Lou Gossett
- Oprah Winfrey
- Leslie Uggams
- Oprah Winfrey Network
- Ben Vereen
- OWN
- John Amos
- filmmaking
- Martin Luther King Day
- black history
by Alfred Edmond Jr.
- Sharen Davis
- Nelson George
- Cicely Tyson
- Jim Crow
- Eyes on the Prize
- Winging It
- The Help
- Kathryn Stockett
- maid
- domestic worker
- Michelle Obama
- Viola Davis
- Meryl Streep
- black hollywood
- Octavia Spencer
- New York Times
by Caroline Clarke
