Black people in America have often led change in this society because our humanity and our liberties were so long suppressed and denied.

So, how long might these social freedoms remain – or could, as some fear, the newly won liberties be short-lived?

El Salvador has experienced democratic backsliding under Bukele, as he has dismantled democratic institutions, curtailed political and civil liberties, and attacked independent media and the political opposition.

Among the notes included in the “Furlough’s Paradise” script is an etymology of the word “furlough” — as in, “permission, liberty granted to do something.”

The author himself permitted an American actor who cabled to him in 1899 to ask his permission to take a creative liberty with his signature hero.