Apr. 13, 2024 00:01 AM EDT
Today in History
Today is Saturday, April 13, the 104th day of 2024. There are 262 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for best actor or best...
Mar. 29, 2024 16:23 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 87.
Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa...
Jan. 22, 2024 21:55 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning "In the Heat of the Night," has died at age 97.
Jewison, a three-time Oscar...