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Richard Wright s novel of police brutality: The most relevant book of 2021 was written 80 years ago

Richard Wright’s novel of police brutality: The most relevant book of 2021 was written 80 years ago Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel “Native Son” was a sensation. As one critic famously presumed, after reading the novel’s blunt force approach to race and poverty, American culture would be changed forever. Wright was a star, and the bestselling author at Harper & Brothers (later HarperCollins), the fabled New York publishing house that claimed the “L

The Man Who Lived Underground is a new, posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police

‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ is a new, posthumous book by Richard Wright a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police Chicago Tribune (IL) Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel “Native Son” was a sensation. As one critic famously presumed, after reading the novel’s blunt force approach to race and poverty, American culture would be changed forever. Wright was a star, and the bestselling author at Harper & Brothers (later HarperCollins), the fabled

Posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police

Posthumous book by Richard Wright — a frighteningly relevant story about a Black man brutalized by police
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Theater s day of reckoning: San Diego stage companies answer the call for equity, diversity and inclusion

Theater s day of reckoning: San Diego stage companies answer the call for equity, diversity and inclusion
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New Federal Theatre Celebrates Women s History Month with An Online Reading Series

New Federal Theatre Celebrates Women s History Month with An Online Reading Series These readings will be free and accessible from NFT s website.by BWW News Desk Hospice Directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring award-winning actresses Saturday, March 13 at 7:00 PM, streaming until March 15 When Jenny Anderson left her lover and moved into her grandmother s unoccupied house to await the birth of her first child, the last person she expected to show up was her gravely ill mother, expatriot poet Alice Anderson, whom she has not seen for twenty years. Leaving her activist husband and ten year-old daughter, Alice moved to Paris in 1965 to pursue her dreams of writing, free from American racism and the demands of being the devoted wife of a Civil Rights leader. She returns home hoping to die as she has lived, by her own rules. But Jenny is determined to find answers to questions she has waited a lifetime to ask and Alice is forced to come to terms with the effect of her flight on the daug

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