Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Oscar for best actor, dies at 94

over 3 years in Washington Post

He forever changed the perception of African Americans in movies with his powerful and charismatic screen presence in films such as “The Defiant Ones,” “A Raisin in the Sun,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”

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