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A Black perspective on the French Revolution

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A Black woman in a strapless top and layers of choker necklaces is center, holding a cocktail glass and smiling with her tongue out. Behind her is a white woman with white stripes of makeup on her face, looking frightened.

Sometimes to understand the present, we must look at the past.  In 2017, playwright Terry Guest grappled with how America could elect someone so outwardly racist as Donald Trump. It shocked him into questioning what could be done about the rise of fascism in the U.S. “Do we protest? Does that work?” Guest asked himself. […]

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