Oct. 25—CHAMPAIGN — Amani Hansberry received straightforward directives from the Illinois men's basketball coaching staff heading into last week's exhibition game against Ottawa (Kan.). The plan for ...
More than 65 years after its Broadway debut, A Raisin in the Sun still asks questions America hasn't fully answered. City ...
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 see ...
Whenever Black History Month rolls around, there is often a focus on the palatable histories of mainstream civil rights leaders. Whether they are depictions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that laud ...
The ‘Raisin in the Sun’ playwright is honored for her work and support of the LGBTQ+ community The New York City home of indelible playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry is now officially listed ...
Anne Kauffman thinks so. She made the comparison in a phone interview about the play she’s directing — a buzzy production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” that opened on ...
It’s not often that two contemporary dramas can be said to owe their direct inspiration to a play written half a century earlier. But then “A Raisin in the Sun’’ is no ordinary play. Lorraine ...
After just one season at West Virginia, sophomore Amani Hansberry will be looking for his third school in as many years. He will be entering the transfer portal for the second consecutive offseason, ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Amani Hansberry has yet to play a game for West Virginia or head coach Darian DeVries. He can hardly wait for that to change. “He yells at me every time I pass up an open shot,” ...
Lorraine Hansberry, along with her contemporary James Baldwin, is a talent whose impact has been muted by literary history and fashion. Like Baldwin, her work has long been minimized to her authorship ...
Her home’s designation as a historic place follows the advocacy efforts of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. “Honoring the very place where Lorraine Hansberry lived and worked through these State ...