Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play "A Raisin in the Sun", highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case "Hansberry v. Lee". The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like
Lorraine Kelly Lorraine Kelly Lorraine Kelly, (born 30 November 1959) is a Scottish television presenter, journalist, model and actress. She has presented on TV-am, GMTV, ITV Breakfast, "Daybreak" and on her eponymous "Lorraine". Between 2012 and 2014, Kelly was a main female presenter of ITV's "Daybreak", which she co-hosted from Monday to Thursdays with Aled Jones. Since 2011, Kelly has hosted the annual "STV Children's Appeal". She hosts the telethon and sister shows such as "STV Appeal Stories" and "Lorraine & Friends". Kelly was born in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland. She is of Irish ancestry and Kelly's father, John, worked as a