A new book, Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward, out Oct. 1 from Running Press, collects many of those speeches. The Sidney Poitier Estate Poitier’s widow ...

Sidney Poitier's Widow Joanna Shares His 'Inspiring' Legacy — and Jaw-Dropping Pickup Line! — in New Book (Exclusive) How Louis Gossett Jr. Got His Acting Start in Broadway's A Raisin in the ...

At a time when the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s changed the face of America, Sidney Poitier was ... In a new book, The Poitier Effect: The Melodrama and Fantasies of ...

It all began when Sidney Poitier flew to Atlanta in ... Still, he talked about three more books he wants to write. Poitier sat down for an interview in his comfortably cluttered house a few ...

Actor Sidney Poitier's memoir, Life Beyond Measure, is out in paperback. Much of the book focuses on his childhood, growing up on rural Cat Island in the Bahamas. The Academy Award-winning actor ...

I decided I would write a book in the form of letters so I could ... from the marriage to actress Joanna Shimkus. At 81, Sidney Poitier seems little changed from his movie years.

In Aram Goudsouzian’s book “Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon,” there’s a moment wherein Poitier recounts five white police officers threatening his life and stalking him home for 35 ...

It was the 1940s, and Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were young ... a film professor at Southern Methodist University and author of the book “Searching for New Frontiers: Hollywood Films ...

Obituary: Trailblazing star Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win best ... direct nine and write three autobiographical books, "This Life," "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography ...

“Around this time last year Cicely Tyson was releasing her book and promoting it. I had no idea she would pass away shortly thereafter. Now, to wake up this morning to a call that Sidney Poitier ...