Five Towns: One Book draws on the life and work of Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry was most noted for her play, A Raisin in the Sun, about a Black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. It addressed many themes such as Redlining, Afrocentrism and who has access to the American Dream. Hansberry was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award.
Throughout her life she was heavily involved in the Civil Rights and Black Freedom Movements as an activist and journalist working side by side with the likes of James Baldwin, W.E.B DuBois and Nina Simone. She was a lesbian in a heterosexualmarriage with her soulmate and fellow activist Bob Nemiroff. She died in Croton on Hudson at 34 of pancreatic cancer.
The main event to kick off the series will be an intimate, roundtable discussion with Dr. Colbert about Radical Vision moderated by Nicole Alifante from CURE, Lynda Jones from The Lorraine Hansberry Coalition and Tejash Sanchala from the Westchester Humans Rights Commission. Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University. Her research interests span the centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance.
All events are in person but will be recorded and live streamed on LMC Media Youtube. Saturday, February 11th at 2pm – Croton Free Library. To view the complete list of events and to register, visit
https://www.learnwithcure.com/events.
