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. […] The post A Black perspective on the French Revolution appeared first on Chicago Reader.
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:21PM on June 23, 2022