Book Cover: Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry Imani Perry being interviewed for PBS November 2018 1 Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American female author to have a play produced on Broadway. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window was also staged on Broadway, but had a much shorter run. 2 The title of her play: A Raisin in the Sun is taken from a Langston Hughes poem with the line: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine’s own family had moved into a white neighborhood in Chicago. The neighborhood had a “restrictive covenant.” Ta Nehesi Coates discussed these covenants in the book We Were Eight Years in Power. White ...
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