Producer - Tracy Strain

In Development

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) - the writer, activist and public intellectual best known for the 1959 Broadway smash and American classic play A Raisin in the Sun. At 28 years old, this African-American woman became an international celebrity and used her platform to publicly speak out about racism and other social injustices.

This high production value multi platform media project explores Hansberry’s fascinating and complicated life from the 30s on Chicago’s South Side to swinging Greenwich Village in the 50s, from a heated Manhattan meeting with Attorney General Robert Kennedy over civil rights in the 60s to an early death from cancer two years later during her second Broadway premiere.

With access to Hansberry’s personal and literary papers, this documentary project will re-introduce an important American artist and her work to the public in 2009 on the 50th anniversary of her groundbreaking debut.

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