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 ...

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

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This past Monday at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...