The Boston Globe, September 4th, 1995
Novelist Richard Wright refused to sugarcoat his vision of America as a breeding ground for racism and violence. Unlike many of his colleagues, he wasn't interested in altering his political and artistic outlook in order to make his work more palatable to mainstream appetites. There are many elements in Madison Davis Lacy's "Richard Wright -- Black Boy," a 90-minute documentary airing tonight at 10 on WGBH-TV, that illuminate Wright's fiery prose. Wright, born on a Mississippi plantation in 1908, grew up on the south side of Chicago, the baddest part of town. The tiny, rat-infested apartments ...
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