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Lorraine Hansberry at her desk at Freedom magazine
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"Never, never again must the Negro people pay the price that they have paid for allowing their oppressor to say who is or is not a fit leader of our cause."
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Proposed Writing Projects
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Grade School Autograph Book
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The Evolution of A Raisin in the Sun, from Dream Deferred to Broadway Masterpiece

Lindsay Champion shares background on Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun.

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Denzel Washington in Broadway’s resonant new A Raisin in the Sun.

Peter Marks, writing for The Washington Post, applauds Kenny Leon’s 2014 production of A Raisin in the Sun.

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No Rest for the Weary: A Raisin in the Sun Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway

Ben Brantley of the New York Times notes that ". . .a drama often presented as something monumental, to be approached with awe and piety, becomes refreshingly accessible."

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"I sit at this desk for hours and hours and sharpen pencils and smoke cigarettes and switch from play to play—Sidney, Touissant, Les Blancs and—nothing happens."
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"And as of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true…"
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"We’ve been trying very hard. . .in America to pretend that this greatest conflict didn’t even have at its base the only thing it has at its base. . .Person after person will write a book today and insist that slavery was not the issue."
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