"Yeah we've all got acute ghetto-itis."
🎭 #OTD in #Film #History 29 March 1961, Daniel Petrie's A RAISIN IN THE SUN, adapted from the play by #LorraineHansberry and starring #SidneyPoitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, and Diana Sands, was released in 🇺🇸
A Raisin in the Sun, 1959, by #LorraineHansberry, first on Broadway written by a black, was about a family in Chicago that purchased a home in the white suburbs. It may be based on her own family's experience trying to move to a white neighborhood in the Depression and the subsequent lawsuit.
#LorraineHansberry 🙌
#YouthPLAYS #theatre #theatreeducation #educator #artteacher #youngartist #dramateacher #actor #writer #author #playwright #drama #education #teacher
Youngest Critics’ Circle winner and Daughters of Bilitis member. Lorraine Hansberry’s queer voice fueled the fire of Black revolution.
#LorraineHansberry #BlackQueerLiterature #HansberryVLee #BHM2026
“All which I feel I must write has become obsessive. So many truths seem to be rushing at me as the result of things felt and seen and lived through. Oh, what I think I must tell this world.”
✒️ #LorraineHansberry, American playwright and writer, #DOTD 12 January 1965. #Theatre
#OTD #TDIH #January12, 1965: #DOTD: #RIP #LorraineHansberry. #Playwrights #Writers #Lesbians #Homosexuals #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #BlackPeople #Blacks #ARaisinInTheSun #Stage #Theater #Theatre #Broadway #SoulSky #MusicSky
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🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 2 January 1969, #RobertBNemiroff's stage drama "To Be Young, Gifted & Black," adapted from the writings of his late wife #LorraineHansberry, directed by #GeneFrankel, premiered off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York.
Mr. Lindner? That milquetoast?
Right. Mr. Lindner, the milquetoast. So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no.
—How to Read Literature Like a Professor
—Thomas C. Foster
#LorraineHansberry #Southside #Faust #Symbol
Last Sunday, I attended a concert that included several songs by Nina Simone! The theme of the program was #music by the friends of Lorraine Hansberry. #NinaSimone #LorraineHansberry
Also in Episode 728 is Jacke's discussion of #LorraineHansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. The Hansberry episode was originally released in February 2021 and has been reclaimed from the archives. #books #americanplays @jackewilson.bsky.social
#pridemonth #pridemonth2025 #lgbtlegacy #30daysofhistorywithbrandb #30daysofhistorywithbrandb2005 #pride #pride2025 #lorrainehansberry
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 139 (Late!): #ARaisinInTheSun by #LorraineHansberry
Yes: one of “the great American plays”, it deals with an #African-American #family from #Chicago facing an important choice.
Set at the end of the #Fifties, it anticipated many #issues from the next decade.
May 19 is the birthday of author and playwright #LorraineHansberry who we #quote and back with a picture of #AbuSimbel in #Egypt. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
✒️ Remembering #LorraineHansberry, African American playwright (A Raisin in the Sun) and director, #BOTD 19 May 1930. #Theatre
#OTD #TDIH #May19, 1930: #BOTD: #HBD #LorraineHansberry! #Playwrights #Writers #Lesbians #Homosexuals #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #BlackPeople #Blacks #ARaisinInTheSun #Stage #Theater #Theatre #Broadway #MusicSky
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Celebrating the talented, passionate, writer, and humanitarian, #LorraineHansberry
#ARaisinInTheSun
#LGBTQ #CivilRights
#GlobalActivist
Brilliant Woman!
#BadassBlackWomen
#BlackExcellence
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#blackhistory #blackpower #fyp #theraydiotwins #knowledgeispower
#blackknowledge #blackexcellence
#LorraineHansberry
On this day in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun ☀️ premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway.
If you've never read A Raisin in the Sun, check it out today!
#womenshistorymonth #lorrainehansberry
✨ Lorraine Hansberry: The first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. This Women’s History Month, we remember her powerful voice and enduring impact. Visit buff.ly/OI7ctOZ #WomensHistoryMonth #LorraineHansberry
The Playwright Who Brought Reality to the Stage!
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun revolutionized American theater, tackling race and identity head-on. #BlackHistoryMonth #LorraineHansberry
Day Seven of @meaganzworld Black Cinema challenge for February 2025 🤩
A movie based on a Black playwright's work
A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961) dir. #DanielPetrie written by #LorraineHansberry starring #SidneyPoitier #ClaudiaMcNeill #DianaSands #RubyDee #IvanDixon #LouisGossettJr
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
I’m celebrating A Raisin in the Sun—Lorraine Hansberry’s timeless masterpiece. Discover its impact, the cast throughout the years, and why it’s essential during #BlackHistoryMonth.
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#ARaisinInTheSun #LorraineHansberry
#blacksky
picture of Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry in her New York City apartment in April 1959.
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) Hansberry was an activist and playwright best known for her groundbreaking play “A Raisin in the Sun,” about a struggling Black family on Chicago’s South Side. After the play’s release, Hansberry became the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle Award. “A Raisin in the Sun,” named after a line in Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred,” opened at New York City’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre in March 1959, becoming the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. The iconic work was then made into a 1961 film starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee.
Happy Day 6 of Black History Month
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LorraineHansberry
Happy FOURTH day of Black History Month! #blackhistorymonth #lorrainehansberry
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistory365
"To be Young, Gifted and Black..."
#LorraineHansberry
#BlackSky
#ILoveUs❤️🖤💚
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackWomenWriters
#LorraineHansberry: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry (5/19/1930 - 1/12/1965) #lorrainehansberry
"Serious drama — drama that has at least the objective of making a larger statement about life — I think sooner or later has to become involved in its time..." - Lorraine Hansberry
“Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is eventually that which must also make you lonely.”
#LorraineHansberry truth!!
