John Lewis March

Culture and History for the Age of Trump

History doesn’t always tell us how to get it right. It sometimes warns us of the cost of getting it wrong. Art steeped in that history, like John Lewis’ graphic novel trilogy, March, can remind us, if we’re paying attention.

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 / 6 January 2017
March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
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August 2013
March: Book Two
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
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January 2015
March: Book Three
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
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August 2016

The Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs, Ohio, was packed for the late-night show on the Saturday after Election Day. But we weren’t there to see a cult movie.

We gathered to see one of the village’s favorite sons, Dave Chappelle, host Saturday Night Live for its first episode after Donald Trump was elected President (Chappelle lives here; I wrote about that connection in 2006). Movie theaters don’t normally get to host screenings of live network TV shows, but somebody had a brilliant idea, somebody else made a few phone calls to get the requisite permissions, and the party was on.

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