Sidney Poitier news stories on Newser

Medals of Freedom Will Go to Milk, Kennedy, Poitier

Harry Kimball — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:15:01 CDT

This year's Medal of Freedom recipients share a capacity to change the world, President Obama said today in naming the eclectic group. Among the 16 honorees are Sen. Ted Kennedy, slain gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, actor Sidney Poitier, tennis great Billie Jean King, and retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day...

7 Men Who Led Double Lives

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:10:14 CDT

Alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff is just one of many men whose double lives were exposed by the law, ABC News reports: Eliot Spitzer seemed a dedicated governor and family man until he was pinned in a prostitution ring. Christophe Rocancourt pretended to be a Rockefeller heir to defraud the...

Top 50-Something Studs

Victoria Floethe — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:39:24 CDT

Older men can be sexier than callow youths, such as Leonardo and Brad—or so the ladies of WowOWow report, in their list of the top 50 sexiest men over 50. The elite: Rocker Bruce Springsteen Author James Patterson TV host Charlie Rose

African History Endures in Downtown NY

Zach Samalin — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:34:00 CDT

Concealed for centuries beneath what are now Manhattan skyscrapers, a burial ground uncovered in 1991 teemed with life today as a ceremony honoring African and African American people and their histories marked the dedication of a $50 million granite memorial. "Now we have an opportunity to right some of the...

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC

J. Kelman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:21:07 CDT

As if Barack Obama did not face enough obstacles, the junior senator from Illinois with Oval Office aspirations is likened to a "magic negro" by David Ehrenstein. The "magic negro" is a cultural and cinematic racial stereotype exemplified by some of the characters played by Sidney Poitier, Scatman Crothers, Morgan...