Lorraine Hansberry 
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SOURCE: Zocálo Public Square
9/4/2020
The Black Ambition of "A Raisin In The Sun"
by Koritha Mitchell
Lorraine Hansberry's play and the critical response to it offer a lens on American theater's current reckoning with racism and exclusion, as "the play reveals that what has been framed as “integration” is really about getting white people to stop hoarding everything desirable."
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SOURCE: Refinery 29
4/24/19
The Revolutionary Artist & Civil Rights Activist Pop Culture Forgot About
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