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Revisiting a Conversation with Ruby Dee

Biography.com

This segment originally aired on September 29, 2006.

Ruby Dee, legend of the screen and stage, died on Wednesday in her New York home. Her contributions to the entertainment world and to the civil rights movement are being fondly remembered.
 
Dee was a guest on Maryland Morning in September 2006 as she was planning to participate in the Baltimore Book Festival. 
 
In this interview with Sheilah Kast, that we would like to share again, Dee talked about her 56-year marriage with fellow actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis.

Almost two years after Davis' death, Dee published a collection of her late husband's speeches and writings, titled “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings by Ossie Davis."
 
You can read a few pages here
 

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Jamyla Krempel is WYPR's digital content director and the executive producer of Wavelength: Baltimore's Public Radio Journey. She collaborates with reporters, program and podcast hosts to create content for WYPR’s online platforms.