Saturday, February 17, 2018

Saturday Short

Today's short is the trailer for Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, a documentary on the PBS American Masters' "Thirteen" series. Directed by Tracy Heather Strain, the documentary premiered January 19, 2018.

The African-American playwright, journalist, and activist Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) is most famous for A Raisin in the Sun, which opened on Broadway in 1959.

Read Chris Jones, "'My Name Is Lorraine Hansberry': New PBS Documentary Tells Her Story", Chicago Tribune, January 18, 2018.