Hansberry

[hanz-ber-ee]

noun

1. Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.

Example Sentences

It was at this point, according to Baldwin, that Hansberry spoke up and said to Kennedy, “You have a great many very accomplished people in this room, Mr. Attorney General, but the only man you should be listening to is the man over there. That is the voice,” she added, pointing to Smith, “of 22 million people.”

From Slate

And according to Marshall, there was a moment when “even Lorraine Hansberry was talking about getting guns out of her basement.”

From Slate

Just as Hansberry was when she effectively ended the meeting by saying to Smith, according to Baldwin: “This is all true, but I am not worried about black men—who have done splendidly, it seems to me, all things considered. But I am worried,” she continued, looking directly at Kennedy, “about the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop standing on that Negro woman’s neck in Birmingham.”

From Slate

The language used in the article, along with the selection of smiling rather than austere-looking faces of the photogenic Horne, Hansberry, and Baldwin to accompany it, suggests that Layhmond Robinson may well have been in cahoots with Mills’ publicity-seeking spin on the meeting, in spirit if not necessarily through covert coordination.

From Slate

As a director, he enjoys boldly iconoclastic strokes whether staging new work, such as Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play,” or classic drama, such as Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.”

From Los Angeles Times