Boston filmmaker was determined to show Lorraine Hansberry as no one had “I wanted to take her off the pedestal as an icon of middle-class respectability. That’s not who she really was. She’s a radical; she’s a lefty,” says Strain, who is a professor at Northeastern University. “She wrote ‘Raisin’ as a protest play.” Strain’s many onscreen interviews include Hansberry’s sister, Mamie Hansberry, as well as the […]