How Lorraine Hansberry Saw Herself
Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon, 2018) offers a meditation on a Hansberry self-portrait for Lapham Quarterly that Perry came across in her research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
Image Information:
Self-portrait drawn by Lorraine Hansberry in pen & ink on newspaper.
Date:
Tuesday, October 9, 2018