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5 days ago · A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.
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3 days ago · May Hansberry was the first Black woman whose play was produced on Broadway, and one of the many reasons why this is a must-read. Debuting in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun follows the Youngers, a multigenerational Black family doing their best to survive in the hyper-segregated south Chicago. With the passing of Mama’s husband, she receives an ...
4 days ago · Director Liesl Tommy’s unflinching approach gives Lorraine Hansberry’s classic a surprising urgency more than half a century after the drama first played on Broadway.
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3 days ago · African American playwright and writer Lorraine Vivian Hansberry, who 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 black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation.
2 days ago · On this day, in 1959, playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry produced her famous work, Like A Raising in the Sun. This would become the first play produced on Broadway by an African-American woman. This work would follow the Younger family as they try to escape poverty after receiving a $10,000 insurance check.
3 days ago · Author Lorraine Hansberry was born today in 1930. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.
3 days ago · American Experience (@americanexperiencepbs). 36 Likes. “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright behind "A Raisin in the Sun", the story of a family pulled apart by their patriarch's "dreams deferred", was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 19, 1930. https://bit.ly/3V4dz48.
