Sidney Poitier wasn’t initially a fan of Atlanta ... and a televised event marking the first time the MLK holiday was celebrated after becoming a federal holiday. “Everybody and their mama ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

As the riveting drama about Sidney Poitier hits the West End, learn all about this trailblazing actor and the shocking events ...

Director RaMell Ross’ first-person POV approach offers a fresh approach to this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s ...

This month’s picks look at a political convention, the work of a cinematographer and the films of a revered pair of directors.

The Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel revitalizes the medium itself, pushing how trauma, memory and ...

Watching Nickel Boys is like slipping on a virtual-reality headset as it tells the story literally through the eyes of a Black teenager wrongfully imprisoned in 1960s Florida.

Altogether, that avant-garde approach makes for an incredibly stirring watch, one that has clearly had a lasting effect on viewers and critics alike. "Nickel Boys" currently boasts a 90% approval ...

Poetic glimpses of an early-60s childhood — a jungle gym, a tooth getting pulled, MLK beaming from storefront ... race drama The Defiant Ones — with Sidney Poitier chained in a prison truck ...

The concern at the dinner also extended to celebrations including MLK Day and Juneteenth ... In attendance were actors Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, choreographer Alvin Ailey and sculptor ...

We see images from Sidney Poitier film The Defiant Ones before the narrative drops Elwood in a police car on the way to the Nickel Academy, a “reform” school for teenage boys. I use those ...