A Goodbye to Shaft, Hollywood’s First ‘Bad’ Black Man: Richard Roundtree (1942-2023) | Tributes
Richard Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, a bedroom suburb of New York City, in July 1942. His hometown was later made famous as the residence of the fictional Rob and Laura Petrie on the 1960s sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. His sports talents earned him an athletic scholarship to the University of Southern … Read more