Thursday, June 12, 2014

Ruby Dee's legacy of activism, acting mourned

FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, Ruby Dee attends a special screening of "Frankie & Alice" in New York. 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 told The Associated Press on Thursday, June 12, 2014, that her mother died at home at New Rochelle, New York, on Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file) NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined.








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