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17 juin 2024 · Ossie Davis (born December 18, 1917, Cogdell, Georgia, U.S.—died February 4, 2005, Miami Beach, Florida) was an American writer, actor, director, and social activist who was known for his contributions to African American theatre and film and for his passionate support of civil rights and humanitarian causes. He was also noted for ...
14 juin 2024 · This week we feature the second part of the interview with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, followed by an interview with historian and author John Henrik Clarke. ...
17 juin 2024 · “The Outsiders,” a gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel, became the essence of a Broadway insider on Sunday, winning the Tony Award for best new musical on a night when women made...
18 juin 2024 · What was the late, great actor Ossie Davis thinking he wrote a Broadway comedy about racism in 1961?
19 juin 2024 · Not only was she onscreen in Hansberry’s film, reprising her role as Walter Lee’s wife, Ruth Younger, but she was also onstage opposite her husband, Ossie, on the opening night of Purlie Victorious, playing a role he wrote specifically for her country bumpkin Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins.
11 juin 2024 · Following the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, Ossie Davis began writing a play filled with anger and frustration. Having grown up in the deeply segregated state of Georgia, Mr....
14 juin 2024 · Both Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee express their love and adoration for poet and activist Langston Hughes with quotes from his work. Davis shares his thoughts on the transfer of knowledge between the elderly and the youth in order for Black people to be successful as a race.
