4: Do the Right Thing
Colson Whitehead's heart-rending Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida. Today: Elwood is still convinced that hard work and compliance as the way out of Nickel.
Colson Whitehead's electrifying and heart-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in Jim Crow-era Florida, read by Rhashan Stone.
Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. A hard-working student, whose future looks bright until an innocent and tragic mistake changes everything...
Today: Elwood is still convinced that following Dr King's advice to work hard and turn the other cheek will get him out of Nickel...
Writer: Colson Whitehead
Reader: Rhashan Stone
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
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