BREAKING NEWS: Ruby Dee Dead At 91

Ruby Dee Dead At 91

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Stage and screen legend Ruby Dee, who personified grace, grit and progress at a time when African-American women were given little space in movies and on stage, died Wednesday in New Rochelle, N.Y. She was 91.

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The death was confirmed Thursday by a family member, who declined to answer any questions pending the release of a statement.

The Cleveland-born, New York-raised actress and activist — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy and a Screen Actors Guild award, among others — not only starred on Broadway (“Take It From the Top!,’ “Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy”), film (Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever”), and TV (“All God’s Children,” “Feast of All Saints”), but, with her husband and collaborator Ossie Davis, was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement.

In 2005, Dee and Davis received the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Freedom award. Davis died in February of that year.

Dee poses with husband Ossie Davis when the pair won ;ifetime achievment awards from the Screen Actors Guild in 2001.

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source: nydailynews.com

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BREAKING NEWS: Ruby Dee Dead At 91

Ruby Dee Dead At 91

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