Sidney Poitier arrives to the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, California.Sidney Poitier, Hollywood's first major Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94, prompting an outpouring of grief from the entertainment industry and beyond.
"To Sir... with Love. Sir Sidney Poitier R.I.P. He showed us how to reach for the stars," tweeted Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg. At a time of racial tension in America in the 1950s and 1960s, Poitier balanced success with a sense of duty to choose projects that tackled bigotry and stereotypes, including his 1967 classics "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "In the Heat of the Night."Another Oscar-winning actress, Viola Davis, said Poitier's "dignity, normalcy, strength, excellence and sheer electricity...
Why are you writing black with capial B? Do you refer to those with pale skin as White?
So many words to describe Sidney Poitier, but they all seem to fall short.
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