"I put the basketball down, and the rest is history," Gossett, who died Thursday at age 87, told PEOPLE in January of his pivot to acting in the 1950s “They said the part comes with a $700 per diem, ...

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Sidney Poitier’s filmography speaks for itself. Over the course of his decades-long career, the Hollywood icon, who died in 2022 at the age of 94, starred in classics like A Raisin in the Sun, Guess ...

Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister ...

As soon as the curtain came down, the 1959 audience at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre spontaneously rose to give the cast of A Raisin in the Sun –the story of the Black Younger family living in ...

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman to appear on Broadway. Since its first performance in 1959, it remains as hard-hitting as ever. Exploring a domestic drama ...

On Friday, Apple TV+ will debut “Sidney,” a documentary that reflects on the legacy of Sidney Poitier, an actor whose career paved a path for Black actors and filmmakers and galvanized viewers. In a ...