“Babylon: Journeys of Refugees,” spurred conversations about refugees at the Puppet Showplace Theater at Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre Thursday to Saturday.

Puppets take the stage and act out a white man’s eulogy regarding the death of his black friend, unfolding as a series of vignettes and memories about his life before it was brutally taken by the Ku Klux Klan. The small figures bring to life part of the United States’ dark, racist past.