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Sidney Poitier Day is February, 20th.

February 20 is award-winning actor, director and diplomat Sidney Poitier’s birthday. Tributes have cascaded for the Bahamian-American who died on January 6, 2022.   Inevitably, the tributes all led off with his 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor.  That Oscar win, the first in the category awarded to a Black actor and a Bahamian, cemented Poitier …