*The Black Movie Hall of Fame (BMHOF) will host its inaugural Induction Gala on Saturday, February 28, 2026, at the newly restored Boone Theater, its future home, located in the heart of Kansas City’s ...

1949 was Hollywood’s year of the racial message movie. In May, Intruder In The Dust told the story of a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man. July and September saw the release of Lost ...

Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier (born 1927) was once described as “the Martin Luther King of the movies.” In the turbulent 1960s, he “embodied the black image for the dawning Age of ...

As legendary performers, civil rights fighters, and artists who fought to break out of Hollywood’s stereotypical roles for Black men, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were destined to become fast ...