Lexington sports radio host remembers ‘Shaft’ star Richard Roundtree

RICHARD ROUNDTREE (1942- 2023)-RIP Richard Roundtree is an American actor known for creating the onscreen persona of John Shaft, the first and perhaps most iconic black action hero of the 1970s blaxploitation era. Following success as a model, Roundtree was recruited into films at an early age and has since maintained a steady career playing character parts in movies and television. But it is Shaft, the cool, suave detective who helped usher in the Blaxploitation Era (1971-1975) with which Round