Ruby Dee still knows how to draw a crowd. New Rochelle Residents braved the inclement weather last night to view the trailer Life Essentials at Alvin & Friends restaurant in Downtown New Rochelle. Life Essentials is a documentary style film about love, art and activism. The film is told through the eyes of Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee's grandson, Muta' Ali. The film's revealing conversations and never seen-before material gives the current generation a glimpse into the living history that is Ruby Dee. Donations for the production and filming of this living time capsule are still being accepted on the Life Essentials website.
Born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, she spent most of her youth in Harlem. Academia was a priority to Dee and she received degrees in French and Spanish in 1944 from Hunger College. As a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the NAACP and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Dee and her husband Ossie Davis were vocal in their disdain for racial injustice. Dee & Davis were close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and Davis provided the eulogy of Malcolm X in 1965.
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