Just plain bad research then. I remember about 25 years ago when both Variety and The New York Times published an obituary of an actress named Edwina Lewis, listing a bunch of credits, including a run on One Life to Live, under her original name, Margaret Klenck. Klenck played a character named Edwina Lewis on OLTL and never acted under another name. Furthermore, she wasn't dead. And the Edwina Lewis who did actually pass away was black.