Actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee was remembered in poetry, dance and song at a Harlem church, where Alicia Keys sang her song "Superwoman," Wynton Marsalis performed a stirring trumpet solo, ...

Ruby Dee has had a long, productive career as an actress, but that's only one aspect of her persona in the casual "My One Good Nerve: A Visit With Ruby Dee," playing through this weekend at Cheverly's ...

The following article was featured in the March 2008 issue of ESSENCE. When I saw Ruby Dee in A Raisin in the Sun in high school, I remember thinking, Who’s that pretty lady? She’s an amazing actress.

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 ...

(AP) -- 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 Broadway ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) – 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A memorial for actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee will feature music by Alicia Keys and Audra McDonald, reflections by former Mayor David Dinkins and Sonia Sanchez, and a ...

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 ...