Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart

When Lorraine Hansberry premiered A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 (the first play by a Black woman to do so) actress Ruby Dee recalls marveling how it “opened a new chapter in theater, that included Black people.” While most may know the widely studied and performed A Raisin in the Sun as their only reference point for Hansberry, the documentary makes it abundantly clear that there is much more to know about the author.