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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month’s picks include the “Hamilton” alum in Ossie Davis’s 1961 play, a political comedy by Mario Correa, and “Little ...

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 ...

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, ...

The name’s Purlie, like the heavenly gates—which you’ll never see unless you sit down, shut up and find love in your heart. The name’s also Purlie like the teeth, flashing to the back row as the ...

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 ...

Has there ever been a more outrageous, rambunctious, over-the-top and, in the end, downright joyous production of a play staged on Broadway? Oh, to be able to go back to the opening night in 1961 at ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely. By ...

Ossie Davis And Ruby Dee, Part 2NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with screen and stage legends Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. In the second part of their conversation, Ossie and Ruby talk about their political ...