Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis Fill Hood College with Words
Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis entertain a packed Hood College audience with An Evening of Black America. They read poems by Niky Giovanni Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, discuss words as stock in trade, and reflect on the black American experience, drawing on long dramatic careers. The program mixed silence and laughter as it highlighted love, dreams, struggle, and achievement.
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Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis
Hood College
America
Nikx Giovanni
Paul
Laurence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
American Negro Theater
American Shakespeare Festival
Stratford
Conn
Cleveland
Ohio
Broadway debut stars Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis in Jeb
The piece traces Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis in the Broadway play Jeb, highlighting Dee’s later stage and screen work and Davis’s Harlem roots and Broadway debut. It notes their roles amid a Black History Month event organized by Hood College’s Black Student Union and cultural events committee after over a year of planning.
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Jeb
Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis
Harlem
Cogdell, Ga
Byron poll shows Byron constituents favor spending cuts
A Frederick News Post report by Lucian Warren notes a Washington poll indicating a majority in Rep Beverly Byron's Sixth District want the Federal Government to reduce the $200 million deficit, preferring spending cuts over tax increases.
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Byron
Lucian Warren
Frederick News Post
Washington
Beverly B. Byron
Frederick News Poll Shows public opinion on federal policy
The Frederick legislator's poll surveyed about 16 000 Sixth District families through Mrs Byron's initiative. It reports two thirds favor an immediate freeze on federal spending and 69 percent support market based natural gas prices. A majority favor more state and local education aid over federal aid.
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Frederick
Byron
America
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