Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Passes Away

At the golden age of 91 world renowned actress Ruby Dee has passed away.

(CNN) -- Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91.
Dee died peacefully at her New Rochelle, New York, home on Wednesday, according to her representative, Michael Livingston.
Dee -- often with her late husband, Ossie Davis -- was a formidable force in both the performing arts community and the civil rights movement. She was friends with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and received the Frederick Douglass Award in 1970 from the National Urban League.
Davis preceded his wife in death in 2005.

Rest in eternal  iconic peace Mrs. Dee.