Studio Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming production of "Purlie Victorious," Ossie Davis' ...

NEW YORK Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died. He was 87. Davis was found ...

The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special guest, respected This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special ...

R. C. Davis is the given name of a renowned American actor, writer, and activist. An inattentive county clerk (or family affection) morphed the baby’s name into Ossie. It didn’t seem to harm Ossie ...

a 1940s-era drama about Doc Craft, a dining car waiter who realizes his company wants him to retire. This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In “Solo Song for Doc,” it’s man versus “the ...

In the beginning, 1961, was a straight play called “Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,” written by the amazingly versatile author and activist Ossie Davis (1917-2005), ...

HAMPTON ROADS, VA—To kick of Black History Month, Downing Gross Cultural Arts Center presents Purlie— a lively, comedic musical by Ossie Davis about a charismatic preacher who returns to the Jim Crow ...

Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died at age 87. Davis was found dead Friday ...

To understand the world that produced Raiford Chatman Davis, it is perhaps enough to understand how he got his name changed. It happened when his mother went to register his birth certificate. She ...

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee at the 1989 Cannes Festival for the showing of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby ...