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2019 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Kickoff
September 29, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Join us as we kick off the 2019 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film with a screening of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES / FEELING HEART
Dir.: Tracy Heather Strain | USA | 2017 | |118 Min | Documentary
A documentary feature about Lorraine Hansberry, whose play A RAISIN IN THE SUN influenced the representation of African Americans and changed the American theater forever as the first by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. A passionate artist, she was also a committed activist and sought-after intellectual who waged an outspoken and defiant battle against injustice in 20th-century America
