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A Storied Black Family Faces Itself in Purpose
A household very much like Jesse Jackson’s has a brutal, if overdetermined, birthday celebration.
Like Jackson, Solomon has a mercurial, aspiring politician of a son, Junior(Glenn Davis), who, in the timeline of Purpose, is just out of a prison term for tax fraud, and whose wife, Morgan (Alana Arenas), is about to go in and serve her time. When Nazareth’s friend Aziza (Kara Young) gets dragged into the action, stopping off to return a charging cable he left in her car, she’s bowled over to discover she’s in the home of a “Famous Black.” Like an overenthusiastic audience member, she gets out her cameraphone and starts taking selfies. In the second act, stretching across a long dark and winter night — maybe the Hayes simply re-upped their lease on the snow machine from Cult of Love — he doles out more family secrets: pills, affair allegations, a gun (hi, Chekhov!).
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