Black female authors have consistently broken barriers and enriched the literary landscape with their powerful storytelling, ...

Midland Center for the Arts unveils its 2025–26 season with Broadway hits, symphony concerts, global acts, and community ...

Some of the best moms —besides our own — are in works of fiction. Here are some of our favorites for Mother's Day.

Good Friends” explores the importance of friendships and the impact they can have on social change – because people can’t ...

in Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 play (the first by an African American on Broadway) gets a lesson in motherly love. "When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child ...

That year, she published a biography of Lorraine Hansberry (Looking for ... slavery, jazz, African American literature, and more. This interview has been edited for concision and clarity.

Across the ocean, Zora Neale Hurston (USA, 1891-1960) celebrated the richness of African American culture and folklore in novels ... to the groundbreaking plays of Lorraine Hansberry (USA, 1930-1965, ...

And a theater group that started in his honor, to help propel stories indicative of African-American culture presented ... performing in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” then ...

As I sat house-left in the Court Theatre’s performance of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, waiting for the ...