SIDNEY POITIER
Feb 03, 2022
1 minute
JAMIE GRAHAM
he first Black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, Sidney Poitier died on 6 January, aged 94. Born into poverty to Bahamian farmers, Poitier was raised in Nassau. At 15, (1951), playing a doctor who is racially harassed.
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