Ossie Davis was born in 1917 in Codgell, Georgia. Against the advice of his mentor, the pivotal Harlem Renaissance figure Alain Locke, Davis dropped out of Howard University in 1939 to pursue acting.

Honoree Kerry Washington accepts the 2025 Ossie Davis Award for Innovation in Filmmaking onstage as Lionsgate presents the "Shadow Force” red carpet screening during 2025 Atlanta Film ...

which has already earned her the prestigious 2025 Ossie Davis Award for Innovation in Filmmaking. The 48-year-old believes the action-packed thriller “allows a lot of us to have a window into a ...

Drummers perform in front of the Schomburg Center on Lennox Ave., while making a procession after the casket of Ossie Davis was brought out of the Abysinnian Baptist Church in Harlem on Feb. 12 ...

MOORE: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were on the "Guiding Light," and Irna Phillips said that she wanted to have storylines about segregation, but the network wouldn't go for it. Agnes Nixon decided to ...

THANK YOU. TURNING NOW TO THE MURDER TRIAL AGAINST CARLOS DOMINGUEZ. TODAY, JURORS HEARD FROM ANOTHER DAVIS RESIDENT WHO HEARD COMMOTION THE NIGHT THAT KAREEM ABU NAJIM WAS STABBED. VIDEO CLIPS ...

A United 757 operating from New York JFK before the airline moved to Newark. Credit: Joe Pries NEW YORK—United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says he is “committed to bringing us back into JFK ...

Per WWD via MSN, many chose not to participate in the new book, like Caroline, Demi Moore and Cindy Crawford (who both posed for JFK Jr’s George magazine), and more. They even said ...

Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, has found two of its major players: Naomi Watts will play Jackie Kennedy, while newcomer Paul Kelly leads the series as JFK Jr. They join the cast ...