We speak their names.
And hope Oprah can hear us.
This whole glorious thing started because Oprah forgot to invite Cicely Tyson to her birthday party.
Oprah Winfrey arriving at her 2005 Legends Ball.Frederick M. Brown/Getty
By the time the young’uns finished, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
The fact that such people exist is a failure on someone’s part.
To let the documentation of that simply disappear into the internet is a betrayal of their memories.
