Justice
How a Dallas Parking Lot Inspired a Play by William Jackson Harper
The Good Place star wrote Travisville after learning about a civil rights battle that displaced a black community near the Texas State Fair.
On TV, William Jackson Harper is known for his role as Chidi Anagonye on The Good Place, where he plays a tortured philosophy professor who helps his friends navigate ethics in a topsy-turvy afterlife.
But Harper got his start in theater, and this fall he returned to his roots, this time as a playwright, to tell the story of a largely forgotten ethical quandary that took place in his hometown during the civil-rights era.