ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
FEATURING NVLP VISIONARY:
Ruby Dee
Recorded July 26, 2006
This one hour roundtable includes a conversation with Ruby Dee , NVLP student Fellows and two panelists: Dr. Thomas Cripps , author of Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era and a noted historian on African American film history, and Psalmayene 24 , a pioneering youth culture artist who has performed his one-man show Free Jujube Brown at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in New York City and the Kennedy Center.
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As Ruby Dee and her late husband Ossie Davis broke down color barriers on stage and screen, they embodied the successful combination of arts and activism that helped propel the Civil Rights Movement of their era. Can the performing arts still serve today's youth as a catalyst and a vehicle for social change -- or are there effective new approaches for the actors and performers of the "hip-hop generation"?
Veteran actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee discussed these issues, as well as her life and career, in "An Actor's Art / An Activist's Life: Then and Now," a provocative roundtable discussion on activism, performing arts and social responsibility.
The roundtable, presented by the National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) and sponsored in partnership with Time Warner Inc., was held Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at Howard University.
The discussion took place during the 2006 Visionary Heritage Fellows Program (VHFP) summer conference and was webcast live via NVLP's website.
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