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Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright, journalist and activist. Her play A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway and has been revived on Broadway in 2004 and 2014. Generations of Black theater, television and film artists were inspired by and cut their artistic teeth on her masterpiece.
22 de jul. de 2019 · Lorraine Hansberry singing. Photograph by Molly Malone Cook, circa 1957-1958. Perry surmises — accurately, I believe on the basis of my own long immersion in the poet’s world — that Oliver is writing of Hansberry in this passage from Our World , her adoring memoir of and eulogy for the love of her life, describing Cook’s graciously unnamed previous lover:
Mini Bio (1) Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), American Playhouse (1982) and National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2020). She was previously married to Robert Nemiroff.
Biography. Lorraine Hansberry, child of a cultured, middle-class black family but early exposed to the poverty and discrimination suffered by most blacks in America, fought passionately against racism in her writings and throughout her life. Best known for her plays, Hansberry was the first black woman to write a Broadway drama; A Raisin in the ...
Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun exploded onto American theater scene on March 11, 1959, with such force that it garnered for the then-unknown black female playwright the Drama Circle Critics Award for 1958-59 — in spite of such luminous competition as Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth ...
Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, and was the youngest of four children. Her father was a real estate broker, and her mother a schoolteacher Her parents publicly fought discrimination against Black people. When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago ...
11 de jan. de 2018 · Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Clip | Lorraine Hansberry’s inspirational words on being young, gifted and black. Clip | The Groundbreaking Broadway Casting of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin ...
