PELHAM, N.Y. -- They're an ageless couple, products of a world of art and protest that seems long gone now. To hear Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee tell it, the '40s and '50s were beautiful, a time to ...
We previously reported that in their memoir “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” Ruby and Ossie note that “extramarital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and ...
The Children of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Speak on Tribute to Their Parents (Listen – EUR Exclusive!)
*The legacy of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be recognized on Monday, January 15, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. A sea of mourning engulfed America on ...
It took guts, in McCarthy-crazed 1953, to get up and publicly argue for clemency for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Ruby Dee did it without hesitation, ...
This past Monday at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the stars of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch celebrated the 75th ...
NEW YORK — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined. The African-American actress who earned lead roles in movies and on ...
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee at the 1989 Cannes Festival for the showing of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby ...
Ossie Davis And Ruby Dee, Part 2NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with screen and stage legends Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In the second part of their conversation, Ossie and Ruby talk about their political ...
NEW YORK (AP) – Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actress and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91, according to her daughter. Nora Davis Day ...
NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren’t contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined. The African-American actress, who earned lead roles in movies and on ...
Born Ruby Ann Wallace, she grew up writing poetry in Harlem and went on to become a playwright, activist, journalist and one of the most prominent... Ruby Dee: An Actress Who Marched On Washington And ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results