The Late Richard Roundtree’s Trailblazing Legacy

If Richard Roundtree talked about it, it helped other people embrace the idea. He has been dubbed the first Black action hero and will forever be remembered for his performances as John Shaft in Shaft and Sam Bennett in Roots, among others. Even in his personal life, before his recent death after a battle with pancreatic cancer, he survived breast cancer and became one of the first men to talk about his battle with breast cancer and about undergoing a double mastectomy.