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 ...
The Black Movie Hall of Fame will hold its first Induction Gala in 2026, at Kansas City’s Boone Theater, celebrating ...
"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...
1949 was Hollywood’s year of the racial message movie. In May, Intruder In The Dust told the story of a Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man. July and September saw the release of Lost ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — In 1963, Sidney Poitier made ...
Eddie Murphy revealed during an interview for the Apple TV+ documentary “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood” (via Entertainment Weekly) that Sidney Poitier advised him not to ...
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 ...
Murphy was in talks to portray author Alex Haley in the Norman Jewison-helmed version before Spike Lee took over directing, with Washington as the titular civil rights icon. “They were talking about ...
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 ...