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Les Blancs
National Theatre, London SE1
5/5
LORRAINE Hansberry, born in 1930, was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway.
Strongly influenced by friends and mentors like Paul Robeson and WEB Du Bois, much of her work concerned the African struggle for liberation and the Nina Simone song To Be Young, Gifted and Black was inspired by her.
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