Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood’s first Black movie star, dies at 94

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Entertainment, Movies, Actor; Sidney Poitier

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Poitier overcame an impoverished background in the Bahamas and softened his thick island accent to rise to the top of his profession at a time when prominent roles for Black actors were rare. He won the Oscar for 1963’s “Lilies of the Field,” in which he played an itinerant laborer who helps a group of White nuns build a chapel.

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By Brandon Griggs, CNN

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/entertainment/sidney-poitier-death/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1OWvlOckEgL8X4QL6Utn45t0iU8o1d8Wjq9K0JTYiiYJuONTDe0pBAPCU

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