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Oscar winner, ambassador and the conscience of America: this was Sidney Poitier, Hollywood’s first black leading man


Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964 in 1964. ©  REUTERS

Shortly after the death of Betty White, Hollywood loses one of its legends again. Actor and director Sidney Poitier passed away on Thursday at the age of 94. In the 1960s, he became the first black man to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role. A legacy of which he was proud, but which sometimes also ate him.

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