Lorraine Vivian Hansberry Playwright, Activist, and Author Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright ever to win the Best American Play Award from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle for A Raisin in the Sun. Her other works include The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and Les Blancs. By Dale Ricardo Shields (c) All Rights Reserved …
MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS “I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now.“ Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She joined the faculty in 1998 and has an expertise in 20th-century political history, feminist theory, and race and the law. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will …
_Robert Fleming “Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.” – Martin Delany Robert Fleming‘s writing career started in earnest with an editorial job for Encore Magazine, a news …
