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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...
Black History: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an African-American playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed ...
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"The opening of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway over 60 years ago was a transformative moment. Audiences experienced, for the first time, a Black family and a drama. It was not a musical, it was not a comedic rendition, it was a depiction of the interior life and the emotional and intimate terrain of a Black family. This hadn't been seen on Broadwa...
"The Great Migration was the greatest and most substantial internal migration in the history of the United States. You had millions upon millions of African Americans moving from the Deep South into northern cities, with the desire of greater economic opportunity and political equality. But what they find, by and large, is that they are confronting...
"Not only did Hansberry die young, but she died in this season of so much upheaval and tragedy. So she dies, and then a couple of weeks later so do Malcolm X, the Kennedys and King and Medgar Evers. They're all these prominent people associated to a greater or lesser extent with the Civil Rights period who die. And I think there's a collective trau...
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...
- Carl Gregg
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 ...
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Premiere: 1/19/2018 | 00:02:42 |. 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...
