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2. www.youtube.com › watchLorraine Hansberry, Activist and Playwright | Biography - YouTube

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   Feb 24, 2018 · 924K subscribers. 314. 49K views 6 years ago #Biography. Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned "A Raisin in...

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   Jan 10, 2018 · 50K views 6 years ago. Explore the inner life and works of the activist, playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry. Narrated by actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson and...

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   This week, Basic Black discusses legendary playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun.' Panelists: Lisa Simmons, director of the Roxbury I...

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lorraine_Hansberry:Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - Wikipedia

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   Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is a 2017 American documentary film by Tracy Heather Strain (Producer, Director, Writer), Randall MacLowry (Producer, Editor) and Chiz Schultz (Executive Producer) on the life and work of writer Lorraine Hansberry.

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   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 black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation.

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   Oct 14, 2017 · Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Directed by Tracy Heather Strain. With Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett Jr., Lorraine Hansberry. A documentary feature about Lorraine Hansberry, whose play Raisin in the Sun was the first by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.

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   How old was Lorraine Hansberry when she died?

   • Lorraine Hansberry died at the young age of thirty-four. By this time, she had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater, including A Raisin in the Sun, which gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city.

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   Is there a documentary about Lorraine Hansberry?

   • In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain. [ 76 ] On September 18, 2018, the biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, written by scholar Imani Perry, was published by Beacon Press. [ 77 ]

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   Who was Lorraine Hansberry?

   • A documentary feature about Lorraine Hansberry, whose play Raisin in the Sun was the first by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. A passionate artist, she was also a committed activist and sought-after intellectual who waged an outspoken and defiant battle against injustice in 20th-century America.

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   Is Lorraine Hansberry in the Hall of Fame?

   • Heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it has since closed. In 2017, Hansberry was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [ 75 ] In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain.

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   Where is Lorraine Hansberry buried?

   • Memorial gravestone of Lorraine Hansberry who died on January 12, 1965 at the age of 34 from pancreatic cancer. Hansberry is buried at the Bethel Cemetery in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY. The text on her gravestone is from The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window : “I care. I care about it all.

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   Who are Lorraine Hansberry relatives?

   • Lorraine Hansberry has many notable relatives, including director and playwright Shauneille Perry, whose eldest child is named after her. Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. Her cousin is the flautist, percussionist, and composer Aldridge Hansberry. Hansberry was the godmother to Nina Simone 's daughter Lisa. [ 11 ]

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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 ...