Some speeches are famous for tears, some for quotes, and some because you can hear the history. Check out 15 standout moments ...

March 24, 2002 -- Halle Berry became the first African-American to win the Best Actress Oscar and Denzel Washington followed Sidney Poitier as only the second black to win the Best Actor award. A ...

Based in Philadelphia, Dope Shows has become some of the most prolific independent show promoters in the nation. 3 days ago Born in Miami on February 20th, 1927, Poitier was the seventh child of a ...

During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

Sidney Poitier received virtually every showbiz award possible: An Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, plus Life Achievement Awards from AFI, BAFTA, NAACP Image Awards, SAG and Kennedy Center Honors, to name ...

(WGHP) — Sidney Poitier has died at the age of 94, according to The Independent. Poitier was the first Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in “Lilies of the Field.” He was also known ...

Sidney Poitier is most known for his Academy Award-winning films, but his most underrated film is a 1992 ensemble ...

Sidney Poitier, who became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar in 1963, passed away at 94 Thursday evening. “Sidney Poitier does not make movies. He makes milestones. Milestones of ...

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 ...