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#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

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“I expect this will be the making of me.”

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and starts a ten day jail sentence.

She's released two days early for good behaviour.

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