Podcasts about lorraine hansberry's a raisin

This week’s episode centers around representations of Black faith and how that impacts the Black family dynamic. These conversations are driven from faith representations in Thea, Good Times, and Black-ish. We also connect these sitcoms to how faith is portrayed in literary texts such as Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, which leads us to the question, how are we seeing Black faith impacting family dynamics then and now?

This week's episode, Sistah Sistah, engages with Black feminism and Black women's representations through sitcoms like Moesha, Martin, and the Cosby Show as well as books like Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Kristal Brent Zook's "Color by Fox." Tune in with Mary Grace, Kimie, and Kevin and tell us your thoughts.

Is it necessary to say something new when you produce a classic text? Director Ron OJ Parson and actor Greta Oglesby join Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about their intimate production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, which is currently playing at Timeline Theatre.

The Pulitzer-winning play "Clybourne Park" took inspiration from Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin the Sun." In this episode, we talk to Clybourne Park's Tony-nominated director Pam MacKinnon about the work and historical research that went into the play. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers