How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

Sidney Poitier led the crime thriller that redefined Black heroes while telling a thrilling tale of power, corruption, and ...

The 1959 sci-fi, The World, The Flesh and the Devil starring Harry Belafonte, turns New York City into a nuclear holocaust.

George Washington is the only president of the United States whose inauguration took place in New York City, then the ...

At one point there’s a jarring cut to the opening credits of the 1958 Sidney Poitier-Tony Curtis chain-gang escape movie, “The Defiant Ones.” There’s a logical reason for these ...

In fact, the director’s inclusion of snippets from The Defiant Ones, Stanley Kramer’s 1958 prison-escape flick with Sidney Poitier handcuffed to Tony Curtis, can be read as both plot foreshadowing and ...

along with clips from Hollywood relics such as the 1958 film “The Defiant Ones,” an of-its-time reckoning with race starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis. The events at Nickel are portrayed ...

An interview with congressional scholar Norm Ornstein, who explains how Trump is already signaling how he’ll put GOP ...

The performances by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier are virtually flawless. Poitier captures all of the moody violence of the convict, serving time because he assaulted a white man who had insulted ...

The Brooklyn native discovered acting in high school and quickly soared, landing his first Broadway role at 16 in “A Raisin in the Sun” alongside Sidney Poitier ... won a Tony for 1969 ...

Archive Photos/Getty Leigh was wed to Curtis’s father, Some Like It Hot actor Tony Curtis, from 1951 to 1962. The elder Curtis died in 2010 at age 85. How Pamela Anderson’s Son Got Her The ...