Throughout his career, Sidney Poitier continued to do things no Black man had ever done in Hollywood before. In 1961’s “Paris Blues,” he played the first Black romantic lead in a major picture. His father was a tomato farmer, and by the age of 13, Poitier was working a full-time job to help his family. In one scene, Poitier slaps a man in the face after being slapped himself. Belafonte once said Poitier “put the cinema and millions of people in the world in touch with a truth about who we are.

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2022 22:26 UTC