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The first play on Broadway written by a black woman

Duration: 9 minutes

on BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

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'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway in 1959. It had an almost exclusively black cast and a black director too. The playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, based it on her own story. Show more

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