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January 12, 2022

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

January 12, 2022

Writer, playwright, and activist Lorraine Vivian Hansberry succumbed to pancreatic cancer on this day in 1965 in New York City at the age of 34. Her best-known work was the Broadway hit, A Raisin in the Sun.

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