Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust

Like [Charles White], I came to adolescence in a community where the steel veil of oppression which sealed our ghetto encased within it a multitude of Black folk who endured every social ill known to humankind: poverty, ignorance, brutality and stupor. And, almost mystically beside all of it: the most lyrical strengths and joys the soul can encompass. One feels that the memories of that crucible, the Chicago South Side, must live deep within the breast of this artist.

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Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks: Darlings of the white liberal establishment?

03.11.2021

Debuting in July 2020, professors Cornel West and Tricia Rose navigate the balance between hope and uncertainty in their weekly program, The Tight Rope.

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Drawing of flowers by Lorraine Hansberry while a college student between 1948 and 1950.

Artist Steffani Jemison reflects on Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?

06.23.2020

Artist Steffani Jemison reflects on Lorraine Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers?

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