Cicely Tyson News

With the red carpet, celebrities and photographers, it could have been a Hollywood movie premiere, but this was the opening of a performing arts school in East Orange.

"Guiding Light" was one of the first soap operas to feature African-American actors in regular roles.

Comedy, Based-on, Adaptation, Sequel Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Henry Simmons, Boris Kodjoe, Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry, Tyler Perry, Keke Palmer An unstoppable force of nature, southern matriarch Madea may have finally taken on more than she can chew.

CICELY Tyson , the septuagenarian actress who peaked in the early 1970s with "Sounder" and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," could use an etiquette lesson, according to an attendee at Nelson Mandela 's 91st birthday celebration at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday.

This week's new releases, led by the fitfully amusing Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail and the totally unnecessary remake of Friday the 13th, have little to offer.

DreamWorks has acquired the rights to the life story of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Marva Collins, whose story was made into a television movie in 1982 named The Marva Collins Story and starring Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman, spoke today at a press conference hosted by Sen.