(Reuters) - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim in theater, film and television and became a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, died peacefully at home, a ...

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 ...

Iconic actress Ruby Dee died Wednesday at the age of 91. As the world mourns her death, real fans remember that her career was versatile and her life was multilayered. Suggested Reading Who is NYC’s ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Academy Award winning actress Ruby Dee has passed away in her New Rochelle, New York home. She was 91. The stage and screen actress enjoyed a career that spanned seven decades. Her representative ...

NEW YORK (AP) - 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. Nora Davis Day ...

(The Root) — A who’s who of famous black married folks and other notables gathered on a cold Wednesday night in Harlem, to fete with great warmth the life of beloved actress and activist Ruby Dee ...

A look back at actress Ruby Dee's versatile careerOssie Davis, left, and Ruby Dee pose in front of their movie poster at the opening night gala of their film "Gone Are the Days!" at the Trans-Lux East ...

NEW YORK (WPVI) -- A public memorial for actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee will be held Sept. 20 in New York. The Terrie Williams Agency said Tuesday that the celebration of Lee's life will ...

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 ...

Ruby Dee, an Oscar-nominated actress whose historic career indelibly intersected with the civil rights movement, died on Wednesday at 91, after more than 60 years in movies that included iconic roles ...

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 ...