Monday, June 16, 2014

R.I.P. Ruby Dee


African-American actress, poet, playwright, journalist, screenwriter and civil rights activist Ruby Dee -- best known for her roles in such movies as the 1961 drama A Raisin in the Sun and the 2007 biographical crime film American Gangster as well as for being the recipient of Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild and Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards and the National Medal of Arts -- went to see her late husband Ossie Davis on June 11 at age 91.

She will be missed.

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