What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? —Langston Hughes Harlem When playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was a 17-year-old student at the University of Wisconsin—Madison she walked into a rehearsal of Sean O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, and the struggles she saw onstage in the […]

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