Hansberry
Proper noun
Meaning
Hansberry (plural Hansberrys)
A surname.
Examples
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
He’s allowed more books and starts reading Homer’s “Odyssey,” “Night” by Elie Wiesel and a biography of black playwright Lorraine Hansberry.
Using the 1963 meeting between politician Robert Kennedy and civil rights activists James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Kenneth Clark, and Jerome Smith as a launch point, Dyson explores the past and future of America.
There, Gary studied ancient Greek theater, Shakespeare and Molière alongside foundational Black texts: “I learned about Black women playwrights, the Black feminist literary tradition as well, everyone from Ntozake Shange to Lorraine Hansberry.”
Samira Wiley plays “A Raisin in the Sun” writer Lorraine Hansberry in the HBO Max series “Equal.”
She also appears in the PBS documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.”