Black Brilliance Youth Books

 

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1. What I must tell the world: how Lorraine Hansberry found her voice

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Leslie, Jay
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Duraleigh Road - Childrens Biography
JB HANSBERR
Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Biography
JB HANSBERR
Green Road Community - Childrens Biography
JB HANSBERR
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As a young girl, playwright Lorraine Hansberry walked everywhere with a notebook, eager to capture the sights, sounds, and stories of the people around her. First Lorraine watched her parents triumph in the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee. Then she discovered the magic of theater. Next, she unlocked the power of her voice, crafting A Raisin in the Sun. Her play went on to influence generations of artists and the world was never the same

2. A song for August: the inspiring life of playwright August Wilson

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Denmead, Sally
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Cary Regional - Childrens Biography
JB WILSON
Duraleigh Road - Childrens Biography
JB WILSON
Fuquay-Varina Community - Childrens Biography
JB WILSON
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"August Wilson grew up open to the creative inspiration in everything he encountered: in library books, in music, in artworks, in the lively conversations overheard in the restaurants and barbershops lining the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood. August paid attention. He listened. And when he got older, he got ideas about what to do with everything he'd seen and heard-ideas that would make him one of the greatest playwrights in Americ an history"--...