{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96","publication_date":"January 28, 2021","summary":"Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in \"Sounder,\" a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in \"The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,\" has died.","author_name":"By Hillel Italie, Associated Press, Mark Kennedy, Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2021\/01\/9481b83658ed4592d8be746a43754ae4-GettyImages-1179265335-1024x745.jpg","thumbnail_height":745,"thumbnail_width":1024}