ATLANTA — Production has began for a documentary film on the life of activist and film star Ossie Davis and his wife Ruby Dee. A native of Clinch County, Davis is known for appearances in movies like Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Director Muta’Ali is

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are a classic Hollywood couple and their grandson, Muta’Ali Muhammad, wants to bring their story of love and light to life with a feature-length documentary titled, Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee. Muhammad describes his vision a

Muta’Ali Muhammad, grandson of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, is developing a documentary film based on their lives, their art, their activism, and their love for each other. Since this legendary couple is held in such great esteem in the black community, a f

Now here's a project to get behind, if there ever was one! A feature documentary on the lives of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, directed by their grandson, Muta'Ali Muhammad - I think the first of its kind ever! Titled Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee, and des

THOMSON, Ga. Mockingbirds are singing from the sweetgum trees as lifelong resident and Thomson city manager, Don Powers, and I look at a grey marble gravestone with a guitar car

Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier as Ruth and Walter Lee Younger in the 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Daniel Petrie What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore -- And then run? Does i

In advance of Sunday's celebration of mothers, we visited with three Colorado women to find out how they manage to stay st

First, it's titled 1982; second, its based on a true story; third, the story revolves around a black father whose wife suffers from a crack cocaine addiction, and his efforts to protect his 10-year old daughter from having to experience life as the child

ARTS NBAF to honor Ruby Dee The National Black Arts Festival will announce its summer lineup on May 24, it’s first edition under new executive director Michael Simanga. But plans for one program are already clear: Actress Ruby Dee will be honored d

Whether they have always known what they wanted or came to their vocations over time, the 30 women profiled in “Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World,” have something in common, besides race. “The foundation for all of these women in so

Marcus Yam for The New York Times Downtown Mount Vernon, N.Y. , on Friday. MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — The picture in the 1947 A. B. Davis High School Yearbook seems to tell a familiar story. There is Richard W. Clark, unmistakably the iconic American personalit

The most breathtaking of the ironies connected to “Clybourne Park” is not one playwright Bruce Norris presents in the comedy itself, which is a clever update of “A Raisin in the Sun,” the classic drama about a black family moving into a white neighborhoo

The son of Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis, Guy Davis initially followed in his famous parents' footsteps. But then he discovered the blues in college, and now travels the world performing in places untouched by the blues, from Greenland to the Galapag

Ruby Dee Philippa didn't end her first cookbook with the desserts chapter. Instead, on the back cover of Ruby's Juke Joint Americana Cookbook, there's a boisterous bonus CD featuring her friends and her own Grammy-nominated band, Ruby Dee & the Snake Han

· Copy of the Lily, signed by Amelia Bloomer The latest addition to the Capitol’s stock of historical exhibits opened Wednesday with little fanfare: “From Seneca Falls to the Supreme Court: New York’s Women Leading the Way” takes up residence in the cham

For reviews of other movies, go to www.capecodonline.com/entertainment. PG-13 "A THOUSAND WORDS" — Eddie Murphy's role in "A Thousand Words" challenges him in new ways as an actor, and he comes through. The film is OK for most teens, though parents of m

There is no tale so tall I cannot tell it, nor song so sweet I cannot sing it. Its a little noisy in the background. Blues guitarist, storyteller and actor Guy Davis is talking on his cell phone while boarding a train to visit his mom, the actress and ci

Judge Glenn Berman gave the jury its instructions Wednesday in Superior Court on how to apply the...- 3:02 pm The criminal case of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his...- 12:57 pm Part of the philosophy behind the

Like a bad penny, Eddie Murphy is back again, in a family-friendly PG-13 comedy that nobody wants to see, playing a carbon copy of the same fast-talking cheeseball he always plays now, this time with a role that puts his famous motormouth at rest — even