Despite the often fleeting nature of celebrity romances, several Hollywood couples have demonstrated that enduring love is ...

Newport cited evidence, including FBI wiretaps, that revealed phone conversations between the two leaders. At a pivotal meeting hosted by Sidney Poitier, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee, Malcolm expressed ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his message in the '60s ...

But then there was Ossie Davis. Throughout his career, the actor, director and playwright from rural Georgia helped elevate the status of the Black dramatic artist from Broadway roles to ...

60 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Cheltenham High School King visited as part of the Cheltenham Township Adult School’s 5-Star Forum series on April 15, 1964. Other ...

Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.

Kenny Leon directs a Broadway revival of 'Purlie Victorious,' Ossie Davis' 1961 race romp, starring Tony winner Leslie Odom and Kara Young.

Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain’t No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy ...

Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain’t No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy ...

Review: Satire Comes in All Colors in Ossie Davis’s ‘Purlie Victorious’ Led by Leslie Odom Jr. as a conniving preacher with a conscience, this revival of a 1961 satire of the old South has ...

Ossie Davis’s 1961 comedy, starring “Hamilton’s” Leslie Odom Jr., has its official opening on Broadway at the Music Box.