Sidney Poitier, the legendary actor and activist who broke racial barriers in Hollywood, has died at 94. A source close to the family confirmed Poitier's death to NBC News. As the son of poor tomato ...

Sidney Poitier challenged the status quo and was intentional with the roles he chose to ensure that he represented empowered characters. Sidney Poitier judiciously selected roles and films throughout ...

President Barack Obama awarded Poitier the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, and in 2011, he earned the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: ...

Sidney Poitier is memorialized in this thorough, and thoroughly conventional, documentary. By Jeannette Catsoulis Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sidney Poitier is an Actor with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1983 House Committee. The year with the highest average number of views per ...