theater project. “I connected with Black Terror so much because growing up in Galveston, Texas, this little Southern Texas town, it was a lot of racial tension, a lot of racial prejudice, and as a teenager, police brutality was a real problem in that town,” said Tina.
Black Terror follows a group of young Black revolutionaries confronting questions about how far one is permitted to go in pursuit of justice.
The text addresses issues like how one should be expected to respond to state sanctioned violence and the limitations of representational politics.
It debuted in the early 1970s. Knowles-Lawson revealed the family history that inspired her to openly revere some of the type of Black revolutionaries presented in the play’s pages. “My
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