In 1998, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee hosted A Separate Cinema on TCM, a five-week film series saluting the Black independent film industry of the early 1900s. From Oscar Micheaux to Clarence Muse, it showcased those who established a successful underground movement outside of Hollywood. You can see the lineup of films that were featured during this programming on our Letterboxd page here: https://tinyurl.com/2wcjxnxf | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

In the late 1980s, Spike Lee helped revive Ossie Davis' film career when he cast him in SCHOOL DAZE ('88). Davis followed that up with two more Lee films: DO THE RIGHT THING ('89), and JUNGLE FEVER ('91), which also co-starred his wife Ruby Dee. #SummerUnderTheStars | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Broadway actor, playwright, and civil rights activist, Ossie Davis, stars in and wrote “The History of the Negro People Part III: Slavery”- one of the episodes in a 9-part series hosted by Davis and produced by WNET in 1956. This episode is a dramatic and choral work adapted from the testimony of formerly enslaved people. Davis is joined in the performance by his wife, actress Ruby Dee, and the choral group The Voices, Inc. who perform several traditional spirituals. In this scene, Davis shares