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Sidney Poitier, Hollywood's first major Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94.

AFPJanuary 7, 2022

Collecting his historic Oscar, Poitier told the glamorous audience of mainly white contemporaries it had been "a long journey to this moment."

AFPJanuary 7, 2022

One of Michael Des Barres‘s first film roles of note was as one of the students in the classic Sidney Poitier vehicle To Sir,...

Adrian PeelMarch 4, 2015