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To Sidney, with love: The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary is a collaboration with his family and honours the first black man to ever win an Academy Award (for Lilies of the Field, in 1964).
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One Film, Two Takes: Sidney

This documentary tracks the life of an actor who walked a tightrope in white Hollywood

  • Tseliso Monaheng
  • Lumumba Mthembu
5 min read
A scene from In the Heat of the Night (1967), in which Sidney Poitier (pictured here with Rod Steiger and Jester Hairston) is about to return the slap of Larry Gates, who plays plantation owner Mr Endicott. Image: United Artists/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis/Getty Images
ANDY GARCIA
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Sidney Poitier: Stone cold when ‘cool’ was not even a factor

Pioneer actor and activist Sidney Poitier, who died at age 94, alchemised the Black condition into a dignified on-screen presence in the 20th century. Bongani Madondo wrestles…

  • Bongani Madondo
11 min read
ANGELA DE PAUL

Winfrey meets family of first child to complain of abuse

Oprah Winfrey has met with the family of the first pupil to complain of abuse at her elite school for disadvantaged South African girls, and invited the girl to return to the…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read