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One, Bruce Norris' brutal Pulitzer- and Tony-winning social satire, "Clybourne Park," begins in the nice house in the white neighborhood where Hansberry's black family moved at the end of the play, then skips 50 years to see how the decaying house is about to be changed again by gentrification. For the second play, Kwei-Armah, the black British artist who took over Center Stage in 2011, wrote "Beneatha's Place," a drama that traces Hansberry's young Afrocentric character to Nigeria with her African husband and, decades later, her struggles to keep her black-studies program alive.

In just an hour, this documentary, part of 2013 PBS Arts Fall Festival, attempts to explore the importance and the plots of all three plays, racial politics from America to Africa, a trip to Hansberry's Chicago and backstage life at Baltimore's resident theater.

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