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A Raisin in the Sun. Spouse. Robert B. Nemiroff. . . (m. 1953; div. 1962) . Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of ...
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Standing next to Tracy Heather Strain, director of the remarkable 2018 film Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, the first feature-length documentary of the life and work of Lorraine Hansberry, author of the groundbreaking 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, I found myself surprised—and a bit unnerved—by the moment’s many contradictions. Strain’s documentary had just been screened to a full and ...
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart will open your mind and your heart to one of America’s most beloved playwrights who has inspired generations with her play, “A Raisin in The Sun”, but the woman behind those words was a well-rounded human being with a wealth of knowledge, heart and activism. This documentary was part of ...
Feb 20, 2020 · February 20, 2020 by Carl Gregg. Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at the far too young age of thirty-four. In those few decades, however, she nevertheless became “the first Black woman to have ...
Mar 22, 2022 · Shields’ biography is the latest in a remarkable resurgence of interest that began in 2018 with “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” (a two-hour documentary available on Amazon Prime) followed by Imani Perry’s book Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, and last year’s Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs ...
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Tracy Heather Strain, dir. Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. American Masters Pictures, et al., 2017. 118 min. Reviewed by Amani C. Morrison, Georgetown University L orraine Hansberry (1930-65) has received renewed attention thanks to the 2010 opening of her archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
