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Ruby Dee Davis has a gift for landing the perfect role. Her part in the 2007 film, "American Gangster," where she played the mother of a real-life gangster portrayed by Denzel Washington, was set in Harlem, where she grew up.A It was the backdrop for police riots and brutality that shaped the stage and screen actress'A consciousness and made her an ...

Syosset-Woodbury has had its share of show business success stories in recent years: Natalie Portman, Judd Apatow, Idina Menzel, and Adam Paschal being some names that immediately come to mind.

Part two of the list of Halloween movies to watch when all the classics are rented out.

Academy Award-nominated actress Ruby Dee was, by all accounts, an American icon.

On the Friday before the election, Michael Bloomberg -giddy with joy-announced his endorsement by 15 prominent African Americans.

Try to imagine, if you will, the pitch meeting for Bubba Ho-Tep . Studio executive: "So what's it all about? Give me the gist." Filmmakers: "Well, it's a horror-comedy-buddy movie about Elvis Presley, who is still alive, and John F. Kennedy, who is also still living, fighting an evil Egyptian mummy in a Texas nursing home.

Actors' Equity Association has announced that Micki Grant, a multi-award winning actor, composer-lyricist and playwright, is the recipient of the 2009 Paul Robeson Award.

CityListen Audio Tours announces the release of Walkin' Broadway, hosted by Elliott Forrest .

After staying close to home the past couple of years, the Lee Central High School choir will soon be making some joyful noise outside South Carolina.

If you think being green is a new concept, think again. 40 years ago, folksinger and American icon Pete Seeger started the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a nonprofit corporation created to preserve and protect the Hudson River and its related bodies of water -- and it didn't take long for the Clearwater concept to travel.

The films of legendary actors and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee will be showcased at a two-day film festival that kicks off today in Harlem.

What: "Jazz on the Lake" Who: Guy Davis When: 7 p.m. Saturday Admission: Free Guy Davis The desk clerk answered in French, leading me to wonder where bluesman Guy Davis was staying.

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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives June 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No.

COMEDY: Stand-up comedian John Heffron, who is a two-time veteran and one-time winner of "Last Comic Standing," has a new one-man special making its debut on Comedy Central on July 18 .

Dark Streets No doubt there are moviegoers who will appreciate this ambitious and interesting musicala s design and use of blues music, but its lack of a compelling protagonist and a shambolic script making it a tough sell to a general audience.

Ossie Davis as Da Mayor and Spike Lee as Mookie in "Do the Right Thing." Do the Right Thing Roger Ebert / May 27, 2001 I have been given only a few filmgoing experiences in my life to equal the first time I saw ``Do the Right Thing.'' Most movies remain up there on the screen.

Peter Howell F ight the power! Kapow! Spike Lee's masterful Do the Right Thing is constantly in your face, from its dancing pugilist opener to the one-two punch of Radio Raheem's "Love/Hate" brass knuckles to the torrent of abuse hurled by the film's hot-and-bothered races.

Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing,' which celebrates its 20th anniversary this summer, makes its Blu-ray disc debut on June 30.

The black film revolution started well before Do the Right Thing was released in 1989 to waves of acclaim and controversy.