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Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Had Open Marriage That Strengthened Their Bond | VIDEO

*Late Hollywood icons Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis revealed in their joint autobiography that they had an open marriage and this alternative lifestyle strengthened their bond. We previously reported that ...
The Washington Post

Ruby Dee And Ossie Davis: Their Activism Is No Act

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 ...
BroadwayWorld

Photos: Leslie Odom, Jr., Kara Young and the Cast of PURLIE VICTORIOUS Celebrate Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee At Schomburg Center

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 ...
EURweb

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together

In 1998, renowned actors Davis and Dee celebrated 50 years of marriage by penning an engaging memoir of their life together, musing on the theater, the struggle for civil rights and what they ...
BroadwayWorld

Exclusive: Hasna Muhammad, Daughter of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Reflects on the Women of PURLIE VICTORIOUS

As Purlie Victorious enters its final weekend on Broadway, BroadwayWorld is very excited to share an exclusive essay written by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee's daughter, Hasna Muhammad, who played a key ...
Afro

Ruby Dee’s Legacy of Activism, Acting Mourned

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 ...
NPR

Ossie Davis And Ruby Dee, Part 2

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 ...
WAMC

Ruby Dee: An Actress Who Marched On Washington And Onto The Screen

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 ...
PBS

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Part 2, and John Henrik Clarke - Harlem, Part (1981)

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 ...
The Root

Honoring Ruby Dee With a Party and Film

(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 ...