Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ossie Davis in Do the Right Thing You know, when I wrote my article on the best Sidney Poitier movies, I knew I would eventually ...

Long before Slave Play, decades before Ain’t No Mo, there was Purlie Victorious, the Ossie Davis comedy masterwork that, like those descendant plays, fused broad comedy, satirical minstrelsy, racial ...

The first revival of Ossie Davis' satire on the Jim Crow south, Purlie Victorious: A Romp Through the Non-Confederate Cotton Patch, is opening on Broadway after a 62-year absence. But the play is no ...

Tony & Grammy winner Leslie Odom, Jr. will star in a new Broadway production of the classic American comedy Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch by Ossie Davis. Purlie ...

An essay by Roger Rosenblatt on the life of actor/activist Ossie Davis who died on February 5th at the age of 87. A look back at the man who was a central figure among black performers for many ...

He had something in him–the rich baritone and the gaze that saw all and feared nothing–that suggested God on a day full of promise and threat. OSSIE DAVIS, who died last week in Miami Beach, at 87, ...

We previously reported that in their memoir “With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together,” Ruby and Ossie note that “extramarital sex was not what really destroyed marriages, but rather the lies and ...

PELHAM, N.Y. -- They're an ageless couple, products of a world of art and protest that seems long gone now. To hear Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee tell it, the '40s and '50s were beautiful, a time to ...

NPR's Scott Simon dives headfirst into the listener e-mail bag. Comments cover The Innocence Mission's lullabies, the humanity of actor and activist Ossie Davis, and a recent conversation about the ...

Ossie Davis, actor, playwright, giant of civil rights, and, with Ruby Dee, partner in one of America's most celebrated marriages, died today in Miami. Davis, still handsome and elegant, was 87. Wire ...

The Hip-Hop community, generations deep, has mobilized to ensure that voters are not intimidated, misinformed or deterred from voting in today’s election. Veteran actor Ossie Davis and Michael Holman, ...