NEW YORK (AP) — People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday. Hundreds of admirers of the pioneering Black actor lined up outside Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church on a wintry Monday. Some said they had come from as far as Atlanta or Los Angeles to be there. Many in the multigenerational crowd held photos of Tyson, who died Jan. 28. The New York-born actor was 96. Her family said masks and social distancing would be required at the viewing. Tyson was the first Black woman […]

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