Sencire Harris and Amani Hansberry Visiting WVU This Weekend Although very little information has leaked out since Darian DeVries took over as the head coach of the West Virginia Mountaineers, big things are happening behind closed doors. Earlier in the week, ... 04/18/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
‘To Be Young, Gifted, and Black’: The Actors Group aims to ‘make an impact’ with upcoming play I’m Lorraine Hansberry, I’m a writer, and these are my subjects,” opens the play “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” a collection of Hansberry’s interviews, journal entries and letters compiled by her ... 04/16/2024 - 5:12 pm | View Link
Rising sophomore Amani Hansberry enters transfer portal Rising sophomore forward Amani Hansberry has decided to enter the transfer portal, he announced on Tuesday morning via X. The 6-foot-8 forward played 19 games for the Illini as a freshman and averaged ... 04/16/2024 - 10:15 am | View Link
Amani Hansberry headed to transfer portal Amani Hansberry is heading to the transfer portal after just one season at Illinois. The 6-foot-8 forward played in 19 games this past season, averaging 2.4 points and 2.1 rebounds, averaging 7.5 ... 04/16/2024 - 9:31 am | View Link
Amani Hansberry deals blow to Illinois basketball frontcourt, enters transfer portal Another big domino has fallen for the Illinois basketball team, as a big man is now in the transfer portal. Entering Tuesday, the Illini had lost two players – ... 04/16/2024 - 5:46 am | View Link
Lorraine Hansberry: Biography, Playwright, Activist Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun' and was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. Updated: Aug 16, 2023 04/17/2024 - 9:09 pm | View Website
Lorraine Hansberry Biography | Chicago Public Library Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry’s four children. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. 04/16/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Website
Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] . She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. 04/16/2024 - 7:27 am | View Website
Lorraine Hansberry | A Raisin in the Sun, African American ... Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York) was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. 04/15/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Website
Lorraine Hansberry | National Museum of African American ... Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) was a playwright, writer, and activist. Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. She was the daughter of a real estate entrepreneur, Carl Hansberry, and schoolteacher, Nannie Hansberry, as well as the niece of Pan-Africanist scholar and college professor Leo Hansberry. Her own family’s landmark court ... 04/15/2024 - 12:18 am | View Website
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel,” by Shahnaz Habib (Catapult, 2023)
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you.
“The Memory of Lavender and Sage,” by Aimie K. Runyan (Harper Muse)
Tempesta’s father is dead. His will leaves the family fortune to her brother. But to everyone’s surprise, the will gives Tempesta money that had belonged to her mother, who died years before. Tempesta has no reason to remain in New York. Her grandmother hates her, her brother is disdainful, and she’s bored with her newspaper job.
So on a whim, Tempesta buys, sight unseen, a house in her mother’s native Sainte-Colombe, France.
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
A. J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window” was a huge best-seller. “End of Story” is destined to be, too. It’s a mystery more than a thriller, and a tightly crafted page-turner.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp.
Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).
Right now, fans of sci-fi/fantasy films are going ga-ga over “Dune: Part 2” (which certainly is gorgeous).
But I’m here to sing the praises of another space opera.
A young George Lucas talks with Anthony Daniels, who plays the robot C-3PO, for the film “Star Wars: A New Hope,” in 1977.
I was a bit late jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon.