She met and socialized with other activists. In “Raisin” she brought both the poignant sorrow over a lost father and the determination to attain his dream. She was from a family that was basically an activist family.” And even when her father died, something Lorraine blamed on the stress of that legal battle, Lorraine didn’t stop. It was as if it were a flop for a good ten seconds.”įilmmaker Tracy Heather Strain, also on the TCA panel, explained why she made this documentary, saying, “People don’t know about Lorraine Hansberry, but people should know about Lorraine Hansberry.” Strain added, “The arch of this film is Lorraine as an artist activist. At the TCA PBS Press Tour in January, Gossett recalled “We thought we had failed there was a silence after the first act and the second act.” He added, “They were so stricken, it took them a moment to realize what they had just witnessed. The original Broadway cast included Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee (1922-2014), Ivan Dixon (1931-2008) and Louis Gossett Jr. Lorraine took her battles stories and wrote them into a play about a dead father and a deferred dream, “A Raisin in the Sun” which was the first play written by a black woman to hit Broadway (1959), It was nominated for four Tony Awards. “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” is about that child, that struggle and her other struggles before her death from cancer at age 34. Hansberry’s youngest child, Lorraine (1930-1965) is the person who made that house that never became a home famous. In 2010, the three-story brown stones became a Chicago landmark.
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