her words to white liberals who criticise civil disobedience ring true just as loudly today: 'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
read lorraine. she knows what she's talking about.
#politics #writer #portraiture #lorraineHansberry #theatre

in terms of civil & human rights, lorraine said that everyone 'must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent...they must harass, debate, petition, give money to court struggles, sit-in, lie-down, strike, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps—and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.'
#theatre #literature #art #lorraineHansberry

she wrote, 'if by some miracle women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.' so revered was she that paul robeson & MLK jr, amongst others, eulogised her. lorraine was also godmother to nina simone's daughter, lisa.
#lorraineHansberry #illustration #digitalArt #portrait #writer #chicago

when, at the age of 34, she died of pancreatic cancer, james baldwin said, 'it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man'.
although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir's 'the second sex' & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant.
#art #history #lorraineHansberry #author #literature

'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'

it's another #art #history thread for you - whether you like it or not. this one celebrates lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930), so what's not to love?
i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand & have been intrigued ever since by its author. the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy.
#illustration #lorraineHansberry #literature #playwright #chicago

Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry starring Oscar Isaac & Rachel Brosnahan will transfer to Broadway for a limited engagement. Performances begin April 25 at the James Earl Jones Theatre. #Broadway #OscarIsaac #RachelBrosnahan #LorraineHansberry

"How Black Communist Women Remade Class Struggle"
#blackcommunistwomen
#GraceCampbell
# WillianaBurroughs
# MaudeWhite
#ThyraEdwards
#ellabaker #MarvelCooke #LouiseThompsonPatterson#EstherCooperJackson #ThelmaDale #ClaudiaJones #VickiGarvin #EslandaGoodeRobeson #DorothyHunton #LorraineHansberry #AliceChildress #DorothyBurnham #YvonneGregory #CharlottaBass

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/before-hotlaborsummer/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=9cb5dd306b-reading_list_2_18_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-9cb5dd306b-40991225&mc_cid=9cb5dd306b&mc_eid=03b51eac01

If you find yourself in Brooklyn, I highly recommend The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window by #lorrainehansberry at BAM.
#theatre #theater #oscarisaac 🎭

Lorraine Vivvian Hansberry 'A Raisin In The Sun
http://feromoon.info/movies/10491-a-raisin-in-the-sun-1961
#LorraineHansberry #DianaSands #RubyDee #ClaudiaMcNeil #SidneyPoitier

Dad: I thought you'd be interested to know they're reviving Sidney Brustein's Window.
Me: Oh, really?
Dad: With Oscar Isaac and Mrs. Maisel.
Me: [Hangs up phone, buys ticket to New York]

#theater #NYC #LorraineHansberry #BlackHistoryMonth

Watching "Raisin in the Sun" for our Poitier Feast and thinking about all the analyses that are like "Walter Lee Younger is the protagonist." O RLY. All the women in the play are what, chopped liver? Just a straight out misreading. (Not that Hansberry would accept that reading either!) #LorraineHansberry #PoitierFest

@AeroDerHasen OMG you read my mind! I was thinking about tooting the #NinaSimone original because she wrote it in homage to her dear friend #LorraineHansberry's literature.

And I love this message for our youth. You've probably heard the term #SelfFulfillingProphecy? We have to stop negative terminology about young Black people because after a while they become what they are called. It is so important to help build their self-worth, for all our futures.

#BlackMastodon

Thanks for tooting!

It was gratifying as to how well the Public Theater in NYC curated the friendship/collaboration between #jamesbaldwin and #lorrainehansberry this season. 🎭