During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

On Friday, Apple TV+ will debut “Sidney,” a documentary that reflects on the legacy of Sidney Poitier, an actor whose career paved a path for Black actors and filmmakers and galvanized viewers. In a ...

Sidney Poitier was not expected to live. He was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father planned to use a shoe box as a makeshift coffin. Poitier's rise from ...

Tony Curtis (left) and Sidney Poitier in director Stanley Kramer's "The Defiant Ones." (Courtesy United Artists/Photofest) Whenever someone’s doing something radical, we’re always going to hear from ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack. By Jennifer Schuessler By Gabe Cohn Sidney Poitier is memorialized in this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Murphy was warned by Sidney Poitier not to star in “Malcolm X.” During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call ...