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![Theatrical poster for the 1959 Brodway presentation of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The 1959 theatrical poster for "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberryshows the face of African American actor Sidney Poitier highlighted in a white circle on a golden yellow ba](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/RITS%20Theatricalservice-pnp-ppmsca-15800-15811v.jpg?itok=IaLuetN-)
![Solidarity to Prisoners image, from the Dreaming Freedom | Practicing Abolition website. Solidarity to Prisoners image of several black birds tearing down a wire fence; from the Dreaming Freedom | Practicing Abolition website.](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/cropped-solidaritytoprisoners-1-1.jpg?itok=wmlAqGEv)
Stevie Wilson, a Black, queer, writer, activist, and student incarcerated in Pennsylvania, is the coordinator of, and participant in, a network of self-organized prisoner abolitionist study groups at SCI-Smithfield. On the website of the four study crews, Dreaming Freedom | Practicing Abolition, Stevie recalls a scene from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in his essay, “Doing Abolition.”
![Poster for the 2019 production of A raisin in the Sun Poster for 2019 production of A Raisin in the Sun](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/Williamstown%20RAISIN-Hero.png?itok=xyJ8R13q)
Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced a special event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of A Raisin in the Sun.
The Harvard University Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) has made Robin Bernstein’s 1999 article, Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun available to the public. You can access and download the article here.
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To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Williamstown Theater Festival will present the American classic from June 25 through July 13, 2019.
![Poster for Lorraine Hansberry: Reimagining Biography March 22, 2018, Schomburg Center, NYC. Lorraine Hansberry: Reimagining Biography: drawing by Hansberry with text below: March 22, 2018, Schomburg Center, NYC. Panel conversation with Margaret Wilkerson, Imani Perry, Soyica Colbert, Tracy Heather Strain. Moderated by Joy-Ann Reid.](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/2018-03-12%20Reimaging%20Biography%20Event%20evite-V2_5.png?itok=E04_znBZ)
On March 27, 2017, Georgetown University Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics presented Dreams Deferred: Crossing Continents and Cultures with ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ in celebration of World Theatre Day. The one-night event, moderated by Soyica Colbert, was in advance of the Arena Stage Mead Center for the American Theatre’s 2017 production of A Raisin in the Sun in Wahington, DC and productions in Sweden at the Riksteatern, directed by Josette Bushell-Mingo, OBE, and at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, directed by James Ngcobo.
![Image of Lorraine Hansberry and title of documentary, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. Image of Lorraine Hansberry and title of documentary, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/AM_Signature_HANSBERRY_1_email.jpg?itok=YUreg79o)
On Friday, January 19, the national broadcast premier of Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, the first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, will be televised on PBS stations across the United States as part of their American Masters series (9pm EST on PBS; check local listings for more details).
![Daisy Bates and Lorraine Hansberry at “Village Rallies for NAACP,” in Washington Square Park. Daisy Bates and Lorraine Hansberry at “Village Rallies for NAACP,” in Washington Square Park, June 13, 1959.](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/LH%20NAACP%20rally%202.jpg?itok=qqQR-7df)
Erin Trahan, for WBUR Boston, interviews Joi Gresham, the executive director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, about the upcoming biopic, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.
![Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway, with “A Raisin in the Sun.” Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway, with “A Raisin in the Sun.”](https://www.lhlt.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images/14hansberry2-superJumbo.jpg?itok=aSKlE97f)
Salamishah Tillet's essay, "For Lorraine Hansberry, 'A Raisin in the Sun Was Just the Start," discusses the upcoming debut of the documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, noting Hansberry's commitment to the ongoing project of social change.
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The Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play picks up five Tony nominations.