Louis Gossett Jr, first Black man to win Oscar as best supporting actor, dead at 87
LOS ANGELES, March 29 — Louis Gossett Jr, the first Black man to win an Academy Award as best supporting actor, has died aged 87, a family statement confirmed on Friday without revealing the cause of death. The Oscar-winning actor’s roles ranged from an enslaved man in the TV mini-series Roots to a no-nonsense drill … Read more