Sidney Poitier's book helped Brian escape his racist upbringing.

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Brian is a Kentucky dentist who says watching Sidney Poitier on television as a child opened his eyes to see beyond color. "Mr. Poitier was one of the first men of color I had seen that threw a wrench into the information that I was being fed by my family and some of society," Brian says.
Published 01/01/2006
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