Sidney Poitier, Hollywood’s first major Black movie star who won mainstream popularity with a series of groundbreaking roles in the 1950s and 1960s, has died aged 94, the deputy prime minister of the Bahamas said Friday
Sidney Poitier was the first Black performer to win the best actor Oscar. Throughout his career, a heavy weight of racial significance bore down on him. “I felt very much as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made,” he once said.
