Seminar: A Raisin in the Sun

Langston Hughes' famous question "What happens to a dream deferred?" inspired Lorraine Hansberry to write one of the great plays of the 20th century. 

In this seminar, Odie Henderson tells you how Hansberry made movie history with this working class drama starring Ruby Dee and a career-best Sidney Poitier.

About Odie Henderson 

Odie Henderson is The Boston Globe's film critic and the author of Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. A member of the National Society of Film Critics, he loves film noir, musicals, Blaxploitation, bad art, and good trash.