An encore program about the brilliant Black playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at age 34. Hansberry was a far more committed feminist and socialist than popular culture has portrayed – and was also a lesbian who wrote fierce pro - feminist though anonymous letters to a leading lesbian magazine. This broadcast will include Bob Lederer’s interview last fall with Professor Bettina Aptheker, author of Communists in Closets, which includes a chapter on Hansberry. Professor Aptheke
Synopsis:
Lorraine Hansberry Fundraiser for WBAI
Guests:
Professor Bettina Aptheker, author of Communists in Closets -
Recordings of Paul Robeson, Ossie Davis and others. -