A resurfaced clip of iconic actor Sidney Poitier rebuking reporters focused on his race was widely shared on the late actor's birthday Monday. In a video entitled "Black Views on Race," Poitier and ...

When the late Sidney Poitier embarked on a movie career in the early 1950s, he entered an industry with a history of depicting Black people in the most negative fashion. The Birth of a Nation, the ...

After making his documentary about the Hollywood icon, the director reflected to IndieWire, "Sidney was doing exactly what we as a people needed him to do." When director Reginald Hudlin finished his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Oprah Winfrey on board as a producer (with Derik Murray) and Reginald Hudlin as director, Poitier gets an extraordinarily ...

On this episode of Here and Now, an interview from the archives of Eyewitness News with recently deceased actor and activist Sidney Poitier. NEW YORK (WABC) -- Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, who ...

“Sidney,” a documentary tribute to the trailblazing Black movie star Sidney Poitier, was produced by Oprah Winfrey, and it leans far more toward one-dimensional inspiration than insight. Important ...

Editor's note: In 2000, USA TODAY reporter Claudia Puig sat down with Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington for a rare joint interview. Washington, then 46, was on the cusp of directing his first film, ...

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In this 2000 interview, Poitier talked about his disastrous first audition, why reading was a struggle and how he went on to become the most famous Black actor of his generation. This is FRESH AIR.

Sidney Poitier on the set of Lilies of the Field, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images “I was not expected to live.” Those are the first words uttered ...

The great acting legend Sidney Poitier died in January at age 94. He did not live to see the thrilling new documentary on his life and career, Sidney, which had its world premiere Saturday night at ...