Davis was found dead in 04 February 2005 his hotel room in Miami, police said. He was 87. Davis’s 65-year career included credits as an actor, producer, director and writer for both stage and ...

Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young, who play the roles that Davis and Dee originated in the current revival of Ossie Davis’ critically acclaimed play, read love letters from the couple’s archive ...

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Part 2, and John Henrik Clarke - Harlem, Part (1981) ... really a bellhop, built an organization called the United Color Democracy. ...

In honor of Black History Month we revisit one of the most beautiful love stories of our time. Take a look back at the bond Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis shared during their 57-year marriage.

Ossie Davis’s satirical play “Purlie Victorious” opened at the Cort Theater in September 1961 with Davis as the charismatic preacher Purlie Victorious Judson and Ruby Dee, his artistic ...