Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned A Raisin in the Sun. Learn about her personal life, accomplishments, and untimely death at age 34.

Learn about the process that led Lorraine Hansberry to write the groundbreaking play, A Raisin in the Sun, from this video by PBS for their American Master's Series.

50 years after Emancipation African-Americans left the Deep South in droves heading north and west to urban, industrial cities like Baltimore, and New York; Detroit and Chicago; and Los Angeles and San Francisco. This Great Migration would reshape cities and the fabric of the United States through the coming World Wars and beyond.

Part I, of Inside Chicago's overview of the notorious housing practices which helped define the city's demography.

Timuel Black recalls how growing up in the “Black Belt” on the South Side was like growing up “in a city within a city.”