29. 1. 2025
January 12 marked 60 years since the death of Lorraine Hansberry at the age of thirty-four. Hansberry was a brilliant intellectual and cultural worker who would earn the begrudging respect of the highest cultural gatekeepers, despite her activism in Communist and anti-racist circles. At a time in the early post-war period when lynching was commonplace and anti-Communism was in full crescendo, it was rare for anyone to risk membership or association, especially for a young African American from a prominent family on Chicago’s South Side. Most of her contemporaries were running away from Communism as fast as their feet would take them.
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