Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94
The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.” Sidney Poitier, whose portrayal of determined, dignified heroes in films like “To Sir, With Love,” “In the Heat of …
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