Hansberry
Americannoun
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Lindo walked the streets where “Raisin” playwright Lorraine Hansberry lived, steeping himself in what it meant to exist in that place and time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
And according to Marshall, there was a moment when “even Lorraine Hansberry was talking about getting guns out of her basement.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2025
From the start, her innovative thinking on form connected her more to the theatrical traditions of Adrienne Kennedy and Richard Foreman than those of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
After more than a decade, Intiman is reviving “Black Nativity” in its new Capitol Hill home, in partnership with The Hansberry Project and helmed by Hansberry artistic director Valerie Curtis-Newton.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Professor William Hansberry of Straight College was introduced to deliver a lecture on the Ancient and Mediaeval Culture of the People of Yorubuland.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various
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