Join Local Author Kathy McDonald For A Talk About Lorraine Hansberry At The Cortelyou Library

This Saturday, March 29, neighbors are invited to the Cortelyou Library (1305 Cortelyou Road on the corner of Argyle Road) for a talk by CUNY professor and writer Kathy McDonald.

Kathy will be discussing Lorraine Hansberry, the essayist/playwright who famously penned A Raisin in the Sun, both in the context of the Brooklyn Museum‘s recent Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to The Ladder exhibition as well as in McDonald’s own book, Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture.

The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition showcased Hansberry’s correspondence with groundbreaking lesbian publication The Ladder, in which Hansberry “articulate[d] the interconnected struggles of women, lesbians, and African Americans during the period [around 1957].” The exhibition’s title goes back to Hansberry’s 1959 statement that “the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women,” and that the people”twice oppressed” are likely to become “twice militant.”

Sound interesting to you? Join Kathy and the Cortelyou Library Friends group Saturday at 3pm, and learn about Hansberry and her role in intersecting rights movements.