Ernest J. Gaines

Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86

CHEVEL JOHNSON and REBECCA SANTANA Associated PressNovember 7, 2019

Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has died. He was 86.

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At 94, The Legendary Cicely Tyson Remains an ‘Optimist’

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentFebruary 14, 2019

There isn’t a day – I’m grateful to say – that when I walk out of my doors, I don’t run into somebody who says, ‘I can’t tell you what you’ve done for me. ‘You changed my life,’” Tyson shared with TIME. “It just confirmed for me that I was on the right track and I stayed on the right track.”