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Friday, June 13, 2014

Postscript: Ruby Dee, 1922-2014 by Jelani Cobb

Long before her death yesterday, Ruby Dee had come to be something of a load-bearing column in American culture.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:16PM

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