WASHINGTON — Sidney Poitier, el legendario actor que hizo historia como el primer actor de raza negra en ganar el Oscar a la mejor interpretación como actor, murió a la edad de 94 años. Poitier, ...

Sidney Poitier, the first Black male and Bahamian thespian to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, has died. He was 94. Eyewitness News Bahamas broke the news on Twitter, reporting that Sir Sidney’s ...

Ryan Calais Cameron’s play dramatises a real meeting the film star had in the 1950s that became a moral reckoning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sidney Poitier, the Bahamian-American actor who broke numerous Hollywood barriers in the 1950s and 1960s — most famously in 1964 when he became the first Black man to win the Oscar for best actor — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20 years after Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier scooped up an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It started with Norman Brokenshire. As a young man from the Bahamas, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier had a thick accent, which ...

Harry Belafonte, folk singer and civil rights activist, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure in his home in Manhattan at 96 years old. Not only was Belafonte a groundbreaking singer, at one point ...

This article originally appeared in PEOPLE. Legendary filmmaker, activist and human-rights trailblazer Sidney Poitier can now add “nonagenarian” to his list of accomplishments. The two-time Academy ...