Sighted Eyes/ Feeling Heart  will be screened on Monday, May 7th from 4-6pm in Richardson Library 115.

Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun and other plays, was a Chicago native.  Raisin was the first play by an African American woman (a young and unknown artist at the time) to run on Broadway, and it was also the first black drama to be directed by an African American director (Lloyd Richards).  The play was also a huge commercial success.  But while her contemporaries James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison have often captured the attention of succeeding generations, Lorraine Hansberry’s work and life have remained comparatively neglected.  Tracy Heather Strain’s documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart gives us a glimpse into Hansberry’s early family life in Chicago, her formation as an intellectual and radical, and her complex personal relationships – including her marriage, her separation, and her eventual coming out as a lesbian.