Rashid Johnson in the director’s chair

The New York-based artist Rashid Johnsonwhose work, which often explores black history and the contemporary African American experience, has included video art, painting, sculpture and installationwill make his feature film directorial dbut with an adaptation of Richard Wrights influential 1940 novel, Native Son. The book looks at the inexorable power of racism and class through the story of Bigger Thomas, a young African American man from a poor area of Chicago. The script adaptation, by the P