Camille Yarbrough

As Mama and Great-Grammaw skillfully weave and braid their children's hair into the intricate cornrow patterns of Africa, they retell fascinating tales of ancestral life in Africa and praise contemporary African American activists.

Contains a performance of Lorraine Hansberry's play A raisin in the sun; a performance of the play To be young, gifted and Black, which is a dramatized portrait of Hansberry arranged from her writings; and seven of Hansberry's interviews and speeches ranging in topic "from integration to backlash to the greatness and limitations of African-American leadership"--Container