Ms. Ruby Dee

"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question." Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee is accomplished actress, poet, playwright, civil rights activist, and the widow of the late Ossie Davis.



Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, Ohio October 22, 1922, she was raised in Harlem, New York and attended Hunter College High School. She attended Hunter College pledged Delta Sigma Theta she has degrees in French and Spanish.


She starred in plays on Broadway before getting her big break in 1950 in the film The Jackie Robinson Story. She starred in A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier and starred in the political films  Gone Are the Days and The Incident.
 

In 1948 she married actor Ossie Davis they participated in the Civil Rights Movement together they were close friends of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Together they had three children and starred in films together such as Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing and Pearlie Victorious decades before. They wrote an autobiography  discussing their briefly open marriage  and political activism insights.




Ruby Dee's career has spanned for nearly eight decades, she is mother, grandmother, activists, survivor of breast cancer Ossie Davis was a blessed man to have her in his life. I admire her so much for all the work she has done and her marriage to Ossie Davis was a true symbol of what Black love looks like since there are critics that argue it has never existed.