one of the earliest black writers to work on the project was richard wright.e he is with vivian harsh. we're at the woodson at the library. a lot of the workers did their work an the library. this is where they went to do the research. the best archives in town for black history. the first document bearing his name is the aspect of chicago here. ultimately worked until 1937 on the project. cement this was here years before black boy. years before native suns. worked on the wpa. lied about the age to get on the project. she produced several writings on the black press and worked on the unpublished novel which she said inspired wright to produce native. was laid off in 1939 after congress passed the 18-month law limiting the time you can collect relief to 18 months. some of you might also be familiar with the study of chicago black metropolis. at here he is at his desk at the parkway center. .. happy to have mrs. gorham here i saw in the audience today. wpa, richard gorham filled out several questionnaire forms prepared by horse on the study of the black press,

richard wright brothers these are. the. fridays positive employment report boosted the world stocks the payroll survey beat expectations showing a gain of over two hundred thousand jobs and while the unemployment rate fell to seven percent a low not seen since two thousand and eight things seem good but before you break out the champagne everything might not be as rosy as it seems tom hartman host of the big picture and author of the crash of twenty sixteen believes the u.s. is more vulnerable to a crash than ever before he says that's because the pillars of democracy which once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted now earlier i spoke with tom and i asked him why he thinks the pillars are more corrupt this time around and here's what he had to say. there's really there's a political piece to it and economic piece the political piece is that the supreme court has emphatically i mean they've been gradually saying this since the eighteenth sixty's but just of phatic least in citizens united. turned our or const

richard wright and james baldwin and people like that, toni morrison, all the great writers. just the great writers and the great artists, they just work, they have a kind of tunnel vision, and they work beyond the area, the time in which they live. so i just -- i don't feel that good about my work, really. i think i have to be -- i just don't think i'm that -- i don't really think i'm that good. so i just have a high wall to climb, and i don't really need to hear how much better i need to get in order to get where i want to be, and i don't need to hear that i'm not any good. i already kind of like know that. tavis: you've said two or three things i want to get to. i haven't even gotten to the text yet, the novel. i promise we'll get to the novel in just a second, but as always, james, from the very beginning of the conversation, sets me off in a direction that i just want to keep pursuing. >> that's all right. tavis: everything you say is so loaded, in a beautiful way. so there are two things you've said now i want to unpack and get you to unpack before i go inside the novel

this movie saving mr banks he plays walt disney a dead person you play a living person you know richard wright and i know recession know about bob died yeah but i know richard in fact we had a little house party my father monos and better work with we had a house party with richard played all the music from the old songs talked about working with disney did like a one man stand in this house. amazin oh he's he old is about eighty seven i believe. and he's just he's the most vibrant optimistic wonderful man i've ever i've ever come across and he he was so kind to me in fact he let me come to his house anytime i wanted to in preparation for the role and he would entertain me you know i would sit we would talk for hours then he would go to the piano and he taught me how to play all of the all of the songs for this is hard to play someone who you know yeah i mean i think it's i was very nervous going into it because. he is a legend you know and and i wanted to i felt responsible to. him correctly and i was quite nervous but he said the greatest thing to me when i went to his house he said actually

the closest thing to a manifesto is richard wright's much anthologized blueprint for negro writing but the essay is typically attributed solely to write members of the south side writers group with whom he read the essay and members of those with whom he wrote the essay have been pushed to the background. the 1937 issue, a new challenge where the essay first appeared was, edited by mary and miners and featured poetry by frank marshall davis, robert davis and margaret walker called all founding members of the south side writers group and a final section of blueprint for negro writing, wright urged black writers to overcome their isolation and work collectively, members of this outside writers group came to get to work in a collective environment. wright learned the importance of working collectively in the chicago chapter of the john reed club. he and others experienced it while working on the illinois writers project. i want to come down a little farther here. despite a short-lived existence, the illinois writers project played a major role in supporting black writers when there were f

wright. >>> happy birthday to milla jovovich who is 38. chris matthews, 68. and pope francis, 77. keep it right here for more news, weather and sports. i'm richardong with bill karins. have a great tuesday. . >>> nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. >> good morning to you. it's 4:30, i'mterry mcsweeney. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. fire crews are on the scene of a scrap metal fire burning at sims metal management in redwood city. it's on seaport boulevard. >> today in the bay's chase cain arrived on the scene. what's it looking like to you? >> reporter: we have a lot of smoke but redwood city fire said they were able to contain this to a one-alarm fire. you may remember this is the exact same facility that caught on fire about a month ago. the fire broke out around 1:00 a.m., but unlike last time, which was a