Raisin in the Sun

Based on the Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959 to which a film adaptation was made in 1961 that starred its original cast including Sidney Poitier as Walter Younger, “A Raisin in the Sun” tells of the struggle of an African American family during the tumultuous peak of racial segregation in the United States […]

Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun,” was a radically new representation of black life, resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental, and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred. I compared Act One, Scene 2, in the play and the film. The setting in the play is on a […]