From the Newsroom: Remembering Ruby Dee, Day 2 Of Courting the RNC

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published June 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM CDT

In today's All Things Considered local block from the KERA Newsroom:

The actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee died today at the age of 91. The legend of stage and screen formed a long-lasting friendship with an impressionable producer in Dallas.

And committee members scoping out Dallas as a potential site for the 2016 Republican National Convention tour the American Airlines Center.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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