Raisin in the Sun
Thursday, February 28th, 2008In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” opened on Broadway, the first play ever by an African American woman to do so. (The title comes from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”: “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?”) ...