1 To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words Mar 02, 1969 To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words 1969 30 min 1 vues Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.