Ruby Mccollum News Today

Arianna we are very excited about the authors who will be speaking here. Started, please silence your cell phones. We are filming and recording today and we prefer not to have any interruptions. We sure to use a microphone at the end of the event to ask questions. If you have not purchased a book and would like to do so, they are available at the register. After the event is over, there will be a signing line to the right of this table here. If you have been here before, you know we ask everyone...

Before becoming a household name, the famously bearded actor was simply a shy teenager with a soft spot for horses. James Brolin tells all.

Artistic Director Nate Jacobs and his brother based their new musical ‘Ruby’ on the 1950s murder of a white Florida doctor by a Black woman

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Follows Pulitzer Prize nominee Claudia Johnson's nineteen year quest to penetrate the mysterious silence surrounding the story of Ruby McCollum, the educated wife of numbers racketeer 'Bolita' Sam and the richest African American woman in Live Oak, Florida, sentenced to the electric chair for the 1952 murder of her white doctor and alleged lover, LeRoy Adams. Ruby was never allowed to tell her story, on the stand or to reporters, so no one, including Zora Neale Hurston, who covere...

The long-delayed premiere of the musical “Ruby” based on a true Florida murder case will be produced along with favorites from seasons past.

Of the seventeen women in Florida who have been sentenced to death, only two have actually been executed according to the Florida Department of Corrections. The earliest account of a woman being sentenced to death dates back to 1926 when a woman was sentenced for killing her husband. 

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The month of April marks both Black Women's History Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The month of April marks both Black Women's History Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.