{"id":14248,"date":"2025-01-27T13:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=14248"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:26:48","slug":"the-power-of-indignation-richard-wright-black-american-novelist","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/events\/the-power-of-indignation-richard-wright-black-american-novelist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Indignation: Richard Wright, Black American Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Richard Wright (1908-1960), the author of the novel\u00a0<em>Native Son<\/em>\u00a0(1940) and the autobiography\u00a0<em>Black Boy<\/em> (1945), pioneered an influential school of protest literature, becoming the first Black writer to pen a bestseller that overtly criticized racism and white supremacy.<\/h2>\n<h3>Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, in character as Wright, will recreate the authors&#8217;\u00a0 life and times, including his final days, and then take questions.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/santafe.librarycalendar.com\/event\/power-indignation-richard-wright-black-american-novelist-22610\">Register here to participate!<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Wright (1908-1960), the author of the novel\u00a0Native Son\u00a0(1940) and the autobiography\u00a0Black Boy (1945), pioneered an influential school of protest literature, becoming the first Black writer to pen a bestseller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[1750,2012,2013],"mec_category":[984,957],"class_list":["post-14248","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black-authors","tag-in-character","tag-richard-wright","mec_category-black-history-month","mec_category-books-and-reading"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14248"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}