Viola Davis wins SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

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Viola Davis won the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series award for her role in “How to Get Away with Murder” at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards held on January 25, at the Shrine Auditorium … Read More

Ruby Dee dies two weeks after Maya Angelou

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Two weeks after the passing of poet and activist Maya Angelou, the black community is mourning the loss of another legend, actress Ruby Dee who died at 91 from natural causes on June 11, 2014, in her New Rochelle home. … Read More