“The thing about Detroit,” says Liza Bielby, codirector of the Detroit-based performing arts collective the Hinterlands, “is that it’s a very radical place. A lot of the conversations that ended up becoming part of the national conversation were already happening around us.”
Originally inspired in 2014 by the activist movements sparked in the wake of high-profile killings of unarmed African-Americans, The Radicalization Process has taken on additional significance since the 2016 presidential election.
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