“Their talents impacted generations of movie goers and influenced countless artists and creators that followed in their footsteps.” Sidney Poitier (1927 ... actor to win the Academy Award for Best ...

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 ...

Discussing his filmography, Denzel Washington once picked out his proudest movie, explaining why it was overlooked by so many ...