NEW YORK - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim on stage, 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 ...

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 ...

Her long career brought her an Oscar nomination at age 83 for best supporting actress for her role in the 2007 film American Gangster. She also won an Emmy and was nominated for several others.

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 ...

Legendary actress, poet and playwright Ruby Dee passed away in her New Rochelle, New York home yesterday. She was 91. According to the New York Daily News, Dee was surrounded by family when she ...

NEW YORK — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film, has died at age 91, according to her daughter.

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 ...

Actress, activist Ruby Dee dead at 91 Published: Jun. 12, 2014, 3:02 p.m. Actress Ruby Dee, an accomplished star on stage and screen who used her voice in the fight for civil rights, has died.