There’s So Much More To Lorraine Hansberry Than ‘Raisin In The Sun’

As a matter of fact, Raisin has had the odd effect of making the playwright famous, and obscuring the realities of who she was. “She was a feminist before the feminist movement. She identified as a lesbian and thought about LGBT organizing before there was a gay rights movement. She was an anti-colonialist before independences had been won in Africa and the Caribbean.”