Word: raisin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright and the first Negro to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of the Year Award, which she received for Raisin in the Sun. She died of cancer six years later in 1965, while her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, was running. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which opened last week at Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, is a warm, loving tribute to her, put together from her own writings - journals, letters, snippets of plays...
...Raisin in the Sun--Lorraine Hansberry's fine drama about being black in Chicago brought to the screen. ClaudiaMcNeil is stunning, and Sidney Poitier isn't half bad. At 2DIVINITY AVENUE, tonight...
...BLANCS, by the late Lorraine Hansberry (Raisin in the Sun) and edited by Ossie Davis. Life and death in an African hospital...
Besides its television work, Talent As sociates has also engaged in a limited way in feature-film production (Requi em for a Heavyweight, A Raisin in the Sun). Referring to Norton Simon...
...Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...