Lorraine Hansberry is best known for writing A Raisin in the Sun, the first play by an African American woman produced on Broadway. … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African American Playwrights
Lorraine Hansberry
Friday Open Thread: Celebs in the Civil Rights Movement
"I was born black and female," Lorraine Hansberry said. These twin identities would dominate her life and her work. Rejecting the limits placed on her race and her gender, she employed her writing and her life as a social activist to expand the meaning of what it meant to be a black woman. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Celebs in the Civil Rights Movement