Ruby Dee

It's the morning after. I wake up to a beautiful L.A. day and memories of the best award show experience I've had to date. My 39th Annual NAACP Image Awards experience was simply wonderful. And though my feet are still swollen from standing all day and dancing all night, I won't complain about a thing. I missed most of the show, but from the cold, windy red carpet to the cozy backstage I had a great time. The biggest highlight of the day...Drum Roll, Please!...was meeting the legendary Ruby... Read Full Story

BlackRadioIsBack.com Favorite Ruby Dee Quotes: OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations. Every once in a blue moon, the Academy Award committee actually gets things right when nominating an actor and/or actress on their merits. Granted, Ruby Dee has been in the... Read Full Story

CONGRATULATIONS! To the one and only RUBY DEE for winning her 1st Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role for her role as Mama Lucas in American Gangster . Click HERE to listen to her discuss the role in the film and visit SAG's website to read her acceptance speech. I'm really looking forward to witnessing her receiving an Academy Award. (Just putting it out into the universe!) Congratulations also to Queen Latifah for winning a second... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ruby Dee and Hal Holbrook have rarely crossed paths in their acting careers, but they have much in common. Both were born in Cleveland a few months apart in the 1920s. Both developed an early passion for literature. Both shaped early professional lives largely on the stage, then gradually built venerable half-century careers in film and television. Read more! Read Full Story

I am a fan of talented, beautiful, creative, women of color. That sort of explains my interest in Ms. Rollins, huh? Someone else I love...actress Ruby Dee . The legend. The icon. Recently nominated for an Academy Award for her role in American Gangster , a recent winner of a SAG award, a Grammy award winner, Ms. Dee is fierce! There are some women you see on screen and they make you so proud to be black. For me, Ruby Dee is one of those women. This video is sort of long by web standards, but... Read Full Story

Ruby Dee has been nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in the film she starred in with Denzel Washington called American Gangster. She plays his mother who he relocates from the south with the rest of his family. Ruby Dee has had an extensive career in theater and film. Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Marshall Edward Wallace, was a porter and waiter on the Pennsylvania Railroad; her mother, Emma Wallace, was a schoolteacher. They moved to Harlem in... Read Full Story

It's the morning after. I wake up to a beautiful L.A. day and memories of the best award show experience I've had to date. My 39th Annual NAACP Image Awards experience was simply wonderful. And though my feet are still swollen from standing all day and dancing all night, I won't complain about a thing. I missed most of the show, but from the cold, windy red carpet to the cozy backstage I had a great time. The biggest highlight of the day...Drum Roll, Please!...was meeting the legendary Ruby... Read Full Story

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