For Pioneering Black Theater, A Season

by 158 | October 5, 2008 at 11:23 am
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In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's long-running family drama A Raisin in the Sun brought together an ensemble of African-American artists — Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Louis Gossett Jr. among them — on Broadway.

It was a landmark production

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It is good for all of us that much has changed since 1959.

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