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Although only two of her plays had been produced by her death at age 29, Lorraine Hansberry emerged as a leading voice in the struggle for Black equality in the 1960s. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black tells her story in the context of the growing Civil Rights movement. But...
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black unfolds in a standard stream-of-consciousness manner, following Hansberry's life in rough chronological order. Autobiographical vignettes are interspersed with scenes from her two famous plays, A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. The Playwright (Amanda Frye...
Three of the performers in To Be Young, Gifted, and Black appeared in the last Black C.A.S.T show, which shared Hansberry's theme of Blacks' divergent responses to a white power structure. The performers' previous exposure to the similar dramatic themes enhances their characterization here. Each actor plays a number...
From the start, the academy sought to provide a supportive environment for Navajos, in contrast to public schools, where they were routinely treated as second-class students. But beyond that, according to headmaster Samuel Billison, the academy had a special mission: to educate young and gifted Navajos to be able...
OK, but the disparities in SAT scores are no big deal. The response attacks The Crimson's mention of the disparity in the SAT scores between athletes and legacies and their non-athlete, non-legacy counterparts. It argues that the 130- and 35-point average differences are not "meaningful"--even...