The play "A Raisin in the Sun" by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry tells the story of an African American working-class family living in the Chicago ghetto. Mama, the head of the family, is waiting for a check from her deceased husband's life insurance. The plot of the drama revolves around the question of how to spend the $10,000. With this play, which was the first by an African American playwright to be performed on Broadway when it premiered in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry gives a voice to people who previously had none. The story has lost none of its relevance.