Oprah Winfrey, Reginald Hudlin and three of Sidney Poitier’s daughters sit down with TODAY’s Sheinelle Jones to discuss Poitier’s rise to stardom during the civil rights era and how he paved the way ...

When Sidney Poitier was honored as the first African American male to win a competitive acting Oscar in 1964 for his lead performance in “Lilies of the Field,” it had been 24 years since Hattie ...

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Sidney Poitier, who died in January at age 94, shouldn’t have been the only Black leading man of his talent, magnetism and stature in his Hollywood heyday, when all the firsts were his. But with the ...