It was a rainy, emotional afternoon at the newly refurbished Memorial Stadium in Lawrence. However, for Kansas State senior offensive lineman Taylor Poitier, it couldn’t have ended any better. As the ...

*The Black Movie Hall of Fame (BMHOF) will host its inaugural Induction Gala on Saturday, February 28, 2026, at the newly restored Boone Theater, its future home, located in the heart of Kansas City’s ...

“I’m not interested in having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl,” said Sidney Poitier, after having a romantic interlude on the screen with a white girl in Guess Who’s Coming to ...

As legendary performers, civil rights fighters, and artists who fought to break out of Hollywood’s stereotypical roles for Black men, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were destined to become fast ...

“Whenever there is a will there will always be a hill,” Sidney Poitier writes in his 1980 autobiography, This Life, “and wherever there is hope there will always be a chance.” Sidney Poitier was born ...

The "Abbott Elementary" actress remembers when she was directed by the legendary star, who lamented: "I am sorry that the industry doesn’t have more to offer you, because you deserve it." ‘Lee ...

Sydney Poitier, the charismatic actor with the smooth-toned voice and intense gaze, rose to stardom in the 1960s. Honored by the Screen Actors Guild, winner of an Academy Award and recipient of the ...

Sheryl Lee Ralph is set to receive the Sidney Poitier Icon Tribute at the second annual Gotham Television Awards. The Gotham will honor Ralph for continuing to inspire, uplift, and break new ground ...

With its one-year anniversary approaching, Shaboozey has revisited his album, Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going. One of the deluxe project’s standout additions is Shaboozey’s collaboration with ...

In his 2006 short-story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone, Amiri Baraka details the Afrofuturist concept of “rhythm travel,” in which a man can journey within refrains of music to legacies past, ...

Taylor Poitier hopes his college football career is aging like a fine wine. The senior offensive lineman has been at Kansas State for as long as head coach Chris Klieman (six years), and his time in ...

The world will always remember actors Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll for their historic contributions to film and television. They made history and opened doors for future generations of actors, ...