Raisin in the sun

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A Raisin in the Sun, American film drama, released in 1961, that was based on Lorraine Hansberry’s acclaimed play about the urban African American experience. A Raisin in the Sun follows a poor black family that receives $10,000 from a life insurance policy after the father’s death. Instead of providing salvation, the money causes intense disagreements over what should be done with it. The family matriarch, Lena Younger (played by Claudia McNeil), wants to leave their Chicago apartment and…

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In the 1950s and '60s, Sidney Poitier won international fame as a film actor and transformed the image of African Americans in the cinema. Although others had enjoyed success in character roles or as musical performers, Poitier won fame as a dramatic actor and romantic leading man, embodying an entire people's struggle for social equality. Sidney Poitier rose to a position of international eminence from a childhood of poverty in the Bahamas, where he spent the first years of his life on a…

The widely anticipated Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun opens on April 3 at the Barrymore Theatre with a cast led by …

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Ruby Dee died June 11, 2014 aged 91 RIP Photo: As Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)