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Feb 24, 2018 · 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 abou...
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- Biography
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 Ja...
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- PBS
Jun 16, 2017 · Lorraine Hansberry in "The Black Experience in Drama." This video features rare footage of Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright and activist most known for her...
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- Black Notes
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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- Documentary, Biography
- Tracy Heather Strain
- 2017-10-14
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
