‘Shaft’ star Richard Roundtree, considered the first Black action movie hero, has died at 81
BY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective in several “Shaft” films beginning in the early 1970s, has died. He was 81. Roundtree’s longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, said the…