Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright exploration of the soul of the United States--the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell wants for us all, through the lens and lives of three major figures his mother, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Ten short years ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States, and changed the course of history. Ten short years ago, our America was hailed globally as a breathtaking example of democracy, as a rainbow coalition of everyday people marching to the same drum beat. We had finally overcome. But had we Both the presidencies of Obama and Donald Trump have produced some of the ugliest divides in history horrific racial murders, non-stop mass shootings, the explosion of attacks on immigrants and on the LGBTQ community, the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a massive gap between