Conversation and Interactive Q+A with Dr. Imani Perry, author or  Looking for Lorraine (2018) and Tracy Heather Strain, director of Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017).

On Hansberry’s 90th birthday, Dr. Imani Perry and documentarian Tracy Heather Strain join The Town Hall for a discussion about "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash," a conversation including the aforementioned playwright, author Paule Marshall, poet Amiri Baraka, and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Hansberry rose off of her sickbed for this forum, her penultimate public appearance.

Watch the first full-length documentary on Hansberry, Strain's Peabody Award-winning Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017). Read Dr. Perry's book Looking for Lorraine (2018).

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