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Your Morning Wake-up Call for May 19, 2011

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 19, 2011 1:00PM

The days certainly do pass by in an instant, don't they? On this date in Lorraine Hansberry, author of the epic play A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, was born on this date. She would only live to be 34. As far as the weather is concerned. it's still cloudy outside, but we're gonna see a bit of a warming trend starting today with a projected high of 68 degrees.