{"id":31532,"date":"2022-01-07T16:57:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T16:57:48","slug":"sidney-poitier-black-actor-who-made-oscars-history-dies-at-94united-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=31532","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Poitier, black actor who made Oscars history, dies at 94United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSidney Poitier, Hollywood\u2019s first major black movie star who led the fight for racial equality in film many decades before the #OscarsSoWhite and Black Lives Matter movements, has died. He was 94.The pioneering thespian became the first black star nominated for an Academy Award with 1958\u2019s The Defiant Ones and, six years later, was the first to win the best actor Oscar for his performance in Lilies of the Field.Collecting his historic award, Poitier told the glamorous audience of mainly white\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3162623\/sidney-poitier-black-actor-who-made-oscars-history?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostSidney Poitier, Hollywood\u2019s first major black movie star who led the fight for racial equality in film many decades before the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}