A century before Beyoncé, Josephine Baker became America’s first global pop star. She broke barriers, built a brand, and ...

It can't be Black Hollywood without the drama. Here are a few stories about your faves you might not've heard.

Although Poitier wasn’t ready to leave his wife for Diahann Carroll, his affair would eventually lead to the end of his 15-year marriage to Juanita Hardy. In 1965, Poitier and Hardy called it quits.

Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier starred together in Porgy & Bess and Paris Blues Credit: ... he reportedly told Carroll that he was not ready for another marriage, which led her to date other men.

Left single, Diahann began dating other men but Sidney was not having any of it and met her in a hotel room, where he 'laid claim' to Diahann despite having no intentions of ending his marriage ...

Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll had a clandestine affair while they were ... but the Hollywood heartthrob purportedly told Carroll that he did not want to jump straight into another marriage. 5.

Hollywood icon Sidney Poitier met fellow Tinseltown star Diahann Carroll while filming Porgy and Bess in 1959 and embarked on a damaging nine-year romance irishmirror Load mobile navigation.

Diahann Carroll: Actor who broke down barriers for African American performers on stage and screen. ... In the latter she discussed her personal life, punctuated by four marriages, and her career.

Called “Diahann Carroll Was the Only Mother I Knew,” it was written by Marc Copage, who played her son, Corey, on the groundbreaking sitcom “Julia” from 1969-71.

They turned out to be condolences over the death of actress Diahann Carroll, who played my mother on the TV show “Julia.” ... After four divorces, she told me that marriage was overrated, ...

Diahann Carroll, who more than half a century ago transcended racial barriers as the star of “Julia,” the first American television series to chronicle the life of a black professional woman ...

Diahann Carroll first came to notice in 1954 when, at the age of 19, ... Her fourth and final marriage, in 1987, to the singer Vic Damone, ended in divorce in 1996. Telegraph, London.