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Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
Ruby Dee was a veteran of many Black films and played some very strong a loveable characters. She will definitely be missed.
Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dies at 91 - CNN.com
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
Ruby Dee was a veteran of many Black films and played some very strong a loveable characters. She will definitely be missed.
Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dies at 91 - CNN.com
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
Raisin In The Sun was a "black film"? I sure am stupid, I thought it was no more than an American Classic. Jackie Robinson to me, is a baseball film, and historical. Do The Right Thing was ok, made before Spike Lee went batty. Great actress, but her beauty made her famous also. Not a knock on her acting ability, still, her looks helped.
Raison in the Sun is an American classic. It started as a play. It is studied in high schools throughout the nation and in English language international schools around the world. You would probably find the play on the shelf of most every high school library, and possibly middle school library, in the nation. It is a play about a black family and about the black experience of racism in America. I suppose if we want to differentiate between women's literature, black literature, and so on, it could be considered black literature; but, I don't like to do that. Some works transcend that kind of categorizing: Raison in the Sun is one of them.Raisin In The Sun was a "black film"? I sure am stupid, I thought it was no more than an American Classic. Jackie Robinson to me, is a baseball film, and historical. Do The Right Thing was ok, made before Spike Lee went batty. Great actress, but her beauty made her famous also. Not a knock on her acting ability, still, her looks helped.Ruby Dee was a veteran of many Black films and played some very strong a loveable characters. She will definitely be missed.
Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dies at 91 - CNN.com
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Who? and who gives a shit.
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Who? and who gives a shit.
Cretin.
I know I won't give a shit when you die.
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Who? and who gives a shit.
Ruby Dee was a veteran of many Black films and played some very strong a loveable characters. She will definitely be missed.
Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dies at 91 - CNN.com
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
Ruby Dee was a veteran of many Black films and played some very strong a loveable characters. She will definitely be missed.
Screen, stage legend Ruby Dee dies at 91 - CNN.com
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. The couple were master and mistress of ceremonies at the 1963 March on Washington, and she was friends with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Dee received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the New York Urban League.
As an actress, her film credits included "The Jackie Robinson Story" (1950), "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961), "Buck and the Preacher" (1972), "Do the Right Thing" (1989) and "American Gangster" (2007).
So how do you differentiate between a "black" film, from all other films? What is the CRITERIA that you use?
Why are you injecting RACISM into a topic pertaining to the death of a "black" actress?
When Robert DeNiro dies, are you going to state that he was a "veteran of many WHITE films?"
When Graham Greene dies, are you going to state that he was a "veteran of many RED films"?
Your description of Ruby Dee is an insult to her family, friends, and admirers.
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Who? and who gives a shit.
Does anyone else wish to shout from the rafters how ignorant they are?
Who? and who gives a shit.
Does anyone else wish to shout from the rafters how ignorant they are?
You are doing quite a good job of it. Ruby Dee? Must of missed those movies. Like I said who gives a shit.
Ruby Dee Has Passed
Who? and who gives a shit.
Does anyone else wish to shout from the rafters how ignorant they are?
