Editing Article Page

Title

Content

<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Sidney Poitier, 1st Black Performer to Win Best Actor Oscar Dies' data-article-id='6015'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10292'>Sidney Poitier, the first Black actor to win an Oscar for a best acting performance, has died. </span> <span data-start-time='10292' data-end-time='13396'>He was 94.</span> <span data-start-time='13396' data-end-time='23042'>Poitier won the best actor Oscar in 1964 for Lilies of the Field. </span> <span data-start-time='23042' data-end-time='29771'>His performance changed how Blacks were presented in the movies. </span> <span data-start-time='29771' data-end-time='40000'>It also inspired a generation of actors during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.</span> <span data-start-time='40000' data-end-time='49083'>Before Poitier, most Black actors were only given supporting parts in the movies. </span> <span data-start-time='49083' data-end-time='57500'>Hollywood filmmakers rarely attempted to tell a Black person&rsquo;s story.</span> <span data-start-time='57500' data-end-time='68188'>In 1967, Poitier was the leading actor in three Hollywood movies in the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='68188' data-end-time='77833'>In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner he played a Black doctor who wishes to marry a young white woman. </span> <span data-start-time='77833' data-end-time='90667'>In In the Heat of the Night he was Virgil Tibbs, a Black police officer dealing with racism during a murder investigation. </span> <span data-start-time='90667' data-end-time='99208'>He also played a teacher in a London school that year in To Sir, With Love. </span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=18347 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/what_is_a_performance.wav'>What is a performance?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/information_especially_of_a_biased_or_misleading_nature_used_to_promote_or_publicize_a_particular_political_cause_or_point_of_view.wav'><span>information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/an_act_of_staging_or_presenting_a_play_concert_or_other_form_of_entertainment.wav'><span>an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/a_broadcast_or_published_report_of_news.wav'><span>a broadcast or published report of news</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/preconceived_opinion_that_is_not_based_on_reason_or_actual_experience.wav'><span>preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=18348 data-hint-location='57500' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/what_job_did_poitiers_character_have_in_the_film_guess_whos_coming_to_dinner.wav'>What job did Poitier's character have in the film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='doctor'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/mechanic.wav'><span>mechanic</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/doctor.wav'><span>doctor</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/astronaut.wav'><span>astronaut</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/chef.wav'><span>chef</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18349 data-hint-location='29771' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/it_also_inspired_a_generation_of_actors_during_the__blank__movement_in_the_1960s.wav'>It also inspired a generation of actors during the <span class='blank'>civil rights</span> movement in the 1960s.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='civil rights'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/puppy.wav'><span>puppy</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/pyramid.wav'><span>pyramid</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/civil_rights.wav'><span>civil rights</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5425/marvel.wav'><span>Marvel</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

Sound name

Show | Back