NEW YORK — 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 ...

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 told The ...

Film and stage actor Ossie Davis was found dead Friday in his Miami hotel room. Davis, the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee, was 87. Davis was in Florida where he had just started making the ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim in theater, film and television and became a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a ...

NEW YORK Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died. He was 87. Davis was found ...

Allen sits on the Advisory Board for the Women's Theater Project and Productions, an organization dedicated to promoting female playwrights.Dee and her husband of 53 years, the actor Ossie Davis, ...

Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died at age 87. Davis was found dead Friday ...