Lorraine Hansberry Photo Credit: David Attie/Getty Images A note from our founder Our sixteenth tribute goes to a playwright who made Broadway history at 29 and spent her final creative years in a home she bought herself in Clinton Hill. Lorraine Hansberry never stopped using her platform to push further, right up until pancreatic cancer cut her career tragically short. A Childhood Forged in a Landmark Case Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in C