The highly-anticipated PBS documentary on famed playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry is officially on the way. After releasing the trailer for the documentary, Sigthed Eyes/Feeling Heart, in ...

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 ...

This Pride Month, as part of our “Hidden Histories” series, we look at the story of Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright and civil rights activist who gave new voice to countless marginalized artists ...

CHICAGO — I’ve been reading about Lorraine Hansberry. After a long time of not reading very much at all about Lorraine Hansberry. There just wasn’t that much out there about her to read. Her work is ...

This documentary, narrated by actress Claudia McNeil, examines the life and work of playwright Lorraine Hansberry. The film focuses on Hansberry's life and how it influenced her most famous work, ...

As soon as the curtain came down, the 1959 audience at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre spontaneously rose to give the cast of A Raisin in the Sun –the story of the Black Younger family living in ...

Historian Imani Perry looks beyond Hansberry's artistic genius to her involvement in several movements — civil rights, LGBTQ rights,... New Biography More Fully Defines Playwright Lorraine Hansberry ...

This Pride Month, look at the story of Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright and civil rights activist who gave a new voice to countless marginalized artists who were women, Black and queer. What is ...

A few months before her death from pancreatic cancer in early 1965, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry spoke about a letter to the editor she sent to, but that was ultimately rejected by, The New York ...

Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit. By Rebecca Makkai Six opinionated ...