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Jan 10, 2018 · 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 featuring the voice of...
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The documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is the first in-depth presentation of Hansberry’s complex life, using her personal papers and archives, including home movies...
Lorraine Hansberry was a groundbreaking playwright and civil rights advocate, best known for her play "A Raisin in the Sun.
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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- Tracy Heather Strain
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Feb 24, 2018 · 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 the Sun". Learn...
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- Biography
In the new KCET documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes - Feeling Heart by Award-winning director Tracy Heather Strain, this very talented playwright's life is dissected from her humble beginnings on the South Side of Chicago to the Harlem Renaissance to hiding her authentic self.
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Mar 22, 2022 · There is some mention of a couple of unproduced plays prior to “A Raisin in the Sun,” as well as “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” her sophomore Broadway effort, which closed on the day she died, but little mention of her posthumously produced ones.