“Raisin in the Sun” was a hit with both white and black audiences when it appeared in 1959 but for very different reasons.
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Black vs. White Responses to “Raisin”
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Moonlight Borrows from Baraka’s “Toilet”
The powerful Oscar-winning film “Moonlight”may have borrowed one of its key scenes from the Imamu Baraka play “The Toilet.”
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