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With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Time Warner) won a Grammy Award for best spoken-word album.


With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. Early life
She was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Harlem, New York.
 (Time Warner) won a Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. The current President of the Academy is Neil Portnow.  for best spoken-word album, sharing the prize with former President Jimmy Carter for Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster

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Title Annotation:Other honors
Author:Dodson, Angela P.
Publication:Black Issues Book Review
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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