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 Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago announced its lineup for this year's 31st annual Black Harvest Film ...

West Coast Black Theatre's  26th season themed “Soul of a People”, opens with the lively musical 'Purlie.' This energetic ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Raiford Chatman ...

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Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up One of Harlem’s greatest heroes was laid to rest last Saturday as ...

But first Purlie has to persuade his brother, Gitlow (Patric Robinson), who, like everybody else in town, works for Cotchipee ...

SINCE HIS APPEARANCE at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, everyone inside the Beltway has been in a tizzy over Ozzy Osbourne. But today, I’d like to change the subject from Ozzy to Ossie.

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - The stars of Hollywood joined the people of Harlem to bid farewell Saturday to actor and activist Ossie Davis, filling a Manhattan church with laughter and tears as a parade of admirers ...

The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special guest, respected This variety series features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. The episode, “Ghost Stories,” aired in April 1982, with special ...