Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on this day in 1930. She would go on to become a trailblazing playwright, best known for A Raisin in the Sun, the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. Her second major work, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, also earned critical acclaim. Hansberry’s powerful narratives confronted race, class, gender, and human rights with unprecedented honesty and vision.
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