Film Icon,Humanitarian and Activist Ruby Dee Honored at NNPA Event During CBC Legislative Weekend
Ruby Dee pictured at reception honoring her and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) as she and onlookers enjoyed the show featuring Ali Woodson former member of the Temptations-Photo-Cynthia Wilson
“In presenting Dee a Black Press Champion award, Danny Bakewell, chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the Black Press of America, said she was chosen to be honored ‘’not because she’s an actress and a writer and a producer that we honor her. It’s because she’s an incredible human being. She is one who stands as a model for all of us as a mother, as a wife and as somebody, who in spite of all of her achievements, never left her community.'’ To read more, click (here).
To read a special blog about Ruby Dee “Give Them Their Flowers”, posted by Station Host Cynthia Wilson, click here.
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