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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
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Contains two feature films including "Sheba, Baby," about Private Detective Sheba Shayne who tries to stop the mob from moving in on her father's loan business; and "The Monkey Hustle," about a local hustler who tries to stop a new expressway from being built in his neighborhood.
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All Frank Custer wanted was a better life for himself and his family. What he got was a job and a place in history. Set in the early 1900s, this powerful true story retells the often brutal and violent beginning of the U.S. Labor Movement through the eyes of a Southern black sharecropper who finds work in a Chicago slaughter-house. After witnessing the inhumane conditions in the plant, he is slowly transformed into an activist for the fledgling interracial...
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