Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, has died at the age of 94. His death was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bahamas. Poitier was one of ...

A full color, hardcover book for the motion picture adaptation of the play Porgy and Bess by Ira and George Gershwin. The film adaptation, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, in 1959 starred Sidney Poitier, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet in spite of the film’s historical significance both in terms of the actors and Preminger’s own career (it would be his last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It started with Norman Brokenshire. As a young man from the Bahamas, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier had a thick accent, which ...

The director will reimagine the opera to “re-locate the characters to a real geography with actual historical and cultural roots.” Colorlines is the leading source for accessible media on race, power ...

Every artist hopes to make the world a better place. Sidney Poitier actually did. It was partly timing. When the actor, who died Friday, made his film debut in 1950’s “No Way Out,” Hollywood was ready ...

When Producer Sam Goldwyn decided to make a big cinemusical out of Porgy and Bess, the Negro folk opera (music by George Gershwin), the one trouble he did not foresee was a shortage of candidates for ...

The pivotal and star-crossed main characters and the Catfish Row community come alive in the highly influential, thought-provoking, and engrossing opera Porgy and Bess. This much discussed opera has ...