Mark Anthony Neal: 'Actor Sidney Poitier was a Force for Change On and Off the Screen

'Ayesha Rascoe of Weekend Edition Sunday speaks to Professor Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University about Sidney Poitier's legacy as a racial justice activist. The actor passed away Thursday at the age of 94. "You know, part of it was this kind of stoicism that he had. Neal suggests, "his unwillingness to react in a way on screen that would empower, you know, white racism and white supremacists and all these other forces that were against him."