Cillian Murphy poses in the press room during the 96th annual Academy Awards on March 10, 2024; Tom Hanks holds his Oscar during the 66th annual Academy Awards on March 21, 1994; Sidney Poitier ...

Poitier set the stage for the racial politics of film to further develop and for Black stereotypes and tropes to be quashed.

Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their mansion in New Mexico. The tragic reports ...

We see images from Sidney Poitier film The Defiant Ones before the narrative drops Elwood in a police car on the way to the Nickel Academy, a “reform” school for teenage boys. I use those ...

Halle’s victory came 39 years after Sidney Poitier became the first Black winner in the Best Actor category. His successors have included Forest Whitaker, Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston power forward Sidney Wicks was born in 1949 in Los Angeles, California ...

After being nominated for Golden Globes for “Porgy and Bess” in 1959 and “Raisin in the Sun” in 1962, Poitier won in 1964 for “Lillies of the Field,” in which he played a handyman who ...

John F. Kennedy October 13 marks the birthday of the U.S. Navy, which traces its roots back to the early days of the American Revolution. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress established ...

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