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  1. "Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry" by Imani Perry, reprinted on September 17, 2019.“Looking for Lorraine is a nuanced...

  2. Lorraine Hansberry was a groundbreaking playwright and civil rights advocate, best known for her play "A Raisin in the Sun.

  3. Step into the extraordinary world of Lorraine Hansberry in this compelling video. Join us as we journey through the life and groundbreaking works of the visi...

  4. Swimming alongside Sighted Eyes in this sea of adulation is Imani Perry’s equally impressive 2018 biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which won the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the Publishing Triangle Shilts-Grahn Award for Nonfiction, and designation as a 2018 New York Times Book Review Notable Book. There are, moreover ...

  5. 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 her play produced on Broadway...

  6. 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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  8. Jun 13, 2023 · Tragically, that wouldn’t happen due to her death from cancer on January 12, 1965. But Hansberry’s legacy has endured: As Martin Luther King Jr. said in a message sent to her memorial, she has...

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