“John Lewis: Good Trouble”: Stirring Documentary of a Hero for Our Times

Carla Seaquist
6 min readAug 4, 2020

“I lost all sense of fear. When you lose your sense of fear, you are free.”

This was the recognition that came to John Lewis, the late civil rights icon and Congressman, when he had his skull broken by Alabama state police at the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965. At the point of death, beaten by officers of the law who…

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Carla Seaquist

Our times examined via politics, culture, morality. Author, "Can America Save Itself from Decline?" (Vol. II). Playwright. Fmr. HuffPost. www.carlaseaquist.com.