(CBS News) Cicely Tyson is an actress whose latest role is all about going home . . .in more ways than one. With Lee Cowan we'll be going along: Just outside the small town of Wharton, Texas, sits ...

When Cicely Tyson accepted an Emmy in 1974 for her starring role in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” she smiled into the camera and spoke straight to her mother: “You see, Mom ...

As Cicely Tyson's memorial takes place in her home of Harlem, New York, NPR speaks with Black women whose lives were changed by Tyson's work and symbolic power.

Cicely Tyson, who died in January, was famous all over the world. But her heart was at home, in Harlem. By Sandra E. Garcia In her autobiography, “Just as I Am,” Cicely Tyson recalled arriving ...