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Trey’s Table Episode 313 Young, Gifted, and Black

Trey’s Table Episode 313 Young, Gifted, and Black

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 In 1937, an 8-year-old Lorraine Hansberry narrowly dodged a brick thrown through her family’s Chicago home by a white mob. Their crime? Moving into a “whites-only” neighborhood. This trauma—and her father Carl Hansberry’s landmark Supreme Court case (Hansberry v. Lee)—would fuel her masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun the first Broadway play by a Black woman .

The Hansberrys’ battle mirrored the Younger family’s in Raisin both defied racist housing covenants that confined Black families to overcrowded, overpriced slums. Though Carl won his case on a technicality (the covenant lacked enough signatures), the ruling didn’t end segregation—just as the Youngers’ victory over Clybourne Park’s buyout offer couldn’t erase systemic racism .

Hansberry’s genius was turning her family’s story into art that exposed Northern liberalism’s hypocrisy. As she wrote, Raisin wasn’t just about “buying a house” but “the ghetto’s violence, deferred dreams, and the cost of dignity” .

Tune in to explore how housing discrimination shaped Hansberry’s radical vision—and why her fight still resonates today. #ARaisinInTheSun #HousingJustice #BlackHistory"
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