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(The Root) — A who’s who of famous black married folks and other notables gathered on a cold Wednesday night in Harlem, to fete with great warmth the life of beloved actress and activist Ruby Dee ...

Actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee give advice to the Black community. Accredited actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee share their adoration for poet and activist Langston Hughes. The couple then goes on to ...

I met Guy Davis, a multi-instrumentalist-blues artist, when he performed at the Dakota as part of the "American Roots Revue" produced by Larry Long, the Twin Cities-based singer, songwriter and ...

The following article was originally featured in the October 2005 issue of ESSENCE Magazine. I have adored and admired Ruby Dee for decades and felt passionate about beginning my new monthly wisdom ...

Let's take a moment now to remember Ruby Dee. The actress died Wednesday after a lifetime of entertaining audiences and challenging the status quo. Back in 1959, she starred in the original Broadway ...

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 ...

*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 ...