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Feb 23, 2018 · Mamie Hansberry, an exhibiting watercolorist, looks much younger than her almost 95 years. She has upswept silver hair and was wearing black pants with a floral jacket adorned with a pair of...
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After the matinee performance, Mamie Hansberry joined the cast onstage and shared unpublished pages of her memoirs in which she admitted to naming her younger sister Lorraine after a childhood...
Mar 5, 2018 · The sister of Lorraine and a visual artist, Mamie Hansberry bears witness to history, art, culture and her family’s civil rights legacy with actor and cultural architect, Charles Reese (BET’s Beauty and the Baller).
Feb 10, 2010 · Mamie Hansberry said civil rights battles were a way of life for her family. She and her three siblings would try to eat at white-owned restaurants and, when denied service,...
MEET MAMIE HANSBERRY . The Initiative recently sat down to capture a conversation between Mamie Hansberry (Lorraine's sister) and Taye Hansberry (Lorraine's great niece) as they discussed growing up in the Chicago Hansberry household and aspects of Lorraine's life that shaped her work.
Jan 18, 2018 · The elder Hansberry tested the racist covenants up to the highest courts of the land, and, in doing so, he not only opened up more residences for the city’s African-Americans, but also he gave...
May 26, 2022 · Great American playwright and civil rights leader Lorraine Hansberry left an indelible mark on American theater and culture with her groundbreaking work, A Raisin in the Sun. Listen as her sister...
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