MESA, AZ — On the first day of Black History Month, there was plenty to celebrate inside Arizona State University's Sidney Poitier New American Film School in Mesa. A local band played a medley of ...

When the late Sidney Poitier embarked on a movie career in the early 1950s, he entered an industry with a history of depicting Black people in the most negative fashion. The Birth of a Nation, the ...

It started with Norman Brokenshire. As a young man from the Bahamas, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier had a thick accent, which prevented him from landing regular roles. And so he spent his nights ...

France gave Sidney Poitier its highest arts honor at the Cannes Film Festival, where the culture minister praised the Oscar winner for tearing down barriers for black actors in Hollywood. Poitier, 79, ...

In theory there's only so much to be done with a celebrity biography, but when the subject is Sidney Poitier, that's an unusually target-rich environment. "Sidney," a documentary from director ...