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The Black Panthers humanized in stirring fiction

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Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat is a powerful piece of historical fiction told in the third person through the eyes of Nettie Boileau, a Haitian-born young woman whose father had been killed by dictator Papa Doc Duvallier’s thugs, the Tonton Macoute.  Her father, a gentle rural doctor, was also a revolutionary. Orphaned at …

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“All the Way” scores at A.R.T.

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Political junkie alert!  You can get a fix in Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston's portrayal of Lyndon Johnson at the American Repertory Theater. (We were lucky to be taken, along with two other couples, by dear friends celebrating their anniversary.)A.R.T.'s new production All the Way starts right after this towering figure's ascension to the Presidency following assassination of …

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