Broadway Scenes Remembered: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
…e forever.” She not only made people think and feel but she also made them realize through the Younger family that black characters could indeed be written in a manner that made them as real as someone like Willie Loman or Tom Wingfield. Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun signaled that the times they were indeed changing in America. As director Richards would note, it was the first drama to also draw blacks to the Broadway theatre. More than 50 years…