By Vaneydie (Vanity) of MochaCity.com
Lorraine Hansberry’s television adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun”, had been nominated to receive the “Best TV Movie” Golden Globe Award. The film which aired in mid-2008, starred Sean “Diddy” Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan, Sean Patrick Thomas and John Stamos. Despite the great acting in this tv-film, not one of the actors were nominated for a Golden Globe award.

The story was fifties or sixties on the Southside of Chicago. The Younger family is a poor black family living in an old run-down house in a black neighborhood. When Lena, the mother of Walter and Beneatha, receives insurance money from the death of her husband, everyone is arguing over what to do with the money. Walter wants to use it to open a liquor store with his freinds Bobo and 'Willy', and get rich. Beneatha wants the money so she may go to medical school and become a doctor. Lena decides to use the part of the insurance money to buy a new house in a white neighborhood. She gives the rest of the money to Walter saying half of it is his and the rest Beneatha's. She tells him to put it in the bank, saving some for Beneatha, but he secretly uses all the money in a deal to buy a liquor store. Then, Willy disappears with the money. Linder, a white man from the neighborhood the family wants to move to, shows up offering to buy the house for more then Lena bought it for in an attempt to keep them out of the White neighborhood. Walter refuses the deal and the play ends with them moving into their new house.