Ruby Dee has died at the age of 91. Dee - an actress, writer and poet and civil rights activist - passed away on Wednesday (June 11) at her home in New Rochelle, New York, with family members at her ...

(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 -- 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 ...

(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 ...

Ruby Dee Gives Voice to Sojourner Turth We hear the actress Ruby Dee performing the speech made famous by the former slave, abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Turth.

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The great actress, civil rights activist, poet Ruby Dee has died at the age of 91. Her career as a performer spanned seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. She blazed new ground as an African-American ...

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 friend ...

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 ...

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 ...