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     Lorraine Hansberry, Activist and Playwright | Biography

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     AMERICAN MASTERS | Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - Preview | PBS

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2. www.pbs.org › wnet › americanmastersLorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - PBS

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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 and ...

3. www.monstersandcritics.com › tv › lorraine-hansberryLorraine Hansberry speaks truth to power in new documentary ...

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   Jan 19, 2018 · Lorraine Hansberry was enigmatic and prolific, a radical who shook up the literary world. Tonight on PBS, the new American Masters documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart will ...

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   Jul 26, 2019 · Here are eight things Strain taught us about Hansberry’s unconventional life and groundbreaking works: 1. Nevertheless, she persisted. Lorraine Hansberry grew up in a heavily segregated community in Chicago. The racial and economic tensions there informed her seminal work, A Raisin in the Sun. “She wanted to accurately represent the African ...

5. itvs.org › films › sighted-eyes-feeling-heartSighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry - ITVS

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   The Film. At a time when women, people of color, and homosexuals were confined to the margins of society, Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), best known for A Raisin in the Sun, boldly challenged U.S. society to live up to its ideals. Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart tells the dramatic story of the young, gifted and black woman who chose words to fight ...

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   Jan 11, 2018 · The song is inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s words. 1970 – “Les Blancs,” an unfinished play by Lorraine about colonialism set in Africa and edited by Robert Nemiroff, opens at Broadway’s ...

7. www.chicagotribune.com › 2018/01/18 › my-name-is‘My name is Lorraine Hansberry’: New PBS documentary tells ...

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   Jan 18, 2018 · There is much in the film that you might not know about Hansberry: her father’s eventual disillusionment with his own country and the impact of his departure from Chicago for Mexico City, and ...

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   What are the best books about Lorraine Hansberry?

   • Two recommended books about Lorraine Hansberry are "A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American Classic," from Theatre Journal, Volume 38, Number 4, Theatre of Color (December 1986), The Johns Hopkins University Press and "The Sighted Eyes and Feeling Heart of Lorraine Hansberry," from Black American Literature Forum, Volume 17, Number 1, Black Theatre Issue (Spring, 1983), St. Louis University.

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   Who is Lorraine Vivian Hansberry?

   • Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was the first Black woman to write a play that was performed on Broadway. She is best known for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). American playwright Lorraine Vivian Hansberry inspired the song 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' by Nina Simone. Her work, which highlights the lives of Blacks under racial segregation in Chicago, is her most renowned contribution to literature.

   Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry | Goodreads

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   What is Lorraine Hansberry known for?

   • Lorraine Hansberry is known for being able to attend college and discover a career as a writer. One of her most famous works is the play "A Raisin in the Sun", whose title is a reference to Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem”, also known as “A Dream Deferred”.

   Dreams Deferred in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

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   Is Lorraine Hansberry alive?

   • Lorraine Hansberry (also known as: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry ), born May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois died January 12, 1965 in New York, New York is an African-American playwright.

   Lorraine Hansberry biography, birth date, birth place and

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   What happened to Lorraine Hansberry?

   • She is told she has anemia and bleeding ulcers. In May, a meeting between Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a handful of civil rights activists, entertainers and artists, including Lorraine Hansberry, to discuss racial tensions is held at the Kennedy’s Manhattan apartment.

   Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart - PBS

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   Where was Lorraine Hansberry born?

   • Lorraine Hansberry was born in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The family then faced racial discrimination when they moved into an all-white neighborhood, where she attended a predominantly white public school.

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9. www.broadway.org.uk › whats-on › lorraine-hansberryLorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart | Broadway

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   When Lorraine Hansberry's now classic A RAISIN IN THE SUN premiered on Broadway in 1959 (the first play by a black woman to do so) actress Ruby Dee recalls marvelling how it "opened a new chapter in theater, that included black people". While most may know A RAISIN IN THE SUN as their only reference point of Hansberry, this documentary makes abundantly clear that there is much more to know ...