In 1950, Sidney Poitier earned ... In the film, Poitier plays a rebellious but musically talented black teen who brings hardship to a new white teacher. Aside from bringing Poitier into the ...

In 1967, The New York Times published Black playwright Clifford Mason's essay, "Why Does White America Love Sidney Poitier So?" Mason dismissed Poitier's films as "a schizophrenic flight from ...