Remembering Sidney Poitier, 1st Black actor to win Oscar for a leading role The Academy Award winner was a trailblazer, ambassador and activist who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

Based in Philadelphia, Dope Shows has become some of the most prolific independent show promoters in the nation. 3 days ago Born in Miami on February 20th, 1927, Poitier was the seventh child of a ...

Sidney Poitier, who became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Miss Chicago (Andre Deckmann) presents the Silver Bear Award to Sidney Poitier, named as "Best Actor of ...

Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack. By Jennifer Schuessler By Gabe Cohn Sidney Poitier is memorialized in this ...

From the rugged bravado of John Wayne to the sizzling glamour of Sophia Loren, what became of the Hollywood stars who ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack. By Jennifer Schuessler By Gabe Cohn Sidney Poitier is memorialized in this ...

Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood's first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.