SOULTIGHT

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. 
--Ayn Rand

On this day in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City with Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil in the lead roles. The play ran for 530 performances, becoming the longest running Broadway play written by an African-American. This was also the first Broadway drama written and directed by an African-American woman. In 1961 'A Raisin in the Sun' was made into a movie, again starring Sidney Poitier as the chauffeur Walter Younger. Hansberry's landmark career was cut short when she died of cancer in 1965 at the age of 34.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

                 --Langston Hughes