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A civil rights leader's family airs its dirty laundry on Broadway in 'Purpose'
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Left to right: Alana Arenas (Morgan), Kara Young (Aziza), Harry Lennix (Solomon), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Claudine), Glenn Davis (Junior) and Jon Michael Hill (Naz) perform in a Broadway production of the play Purpose, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad. Marc J. Franklin, 2025 hide caption
toggle caption Marc J. Franklin, 2025Purpose, a new play now on Broadway, has all the trappings of the classic family drama: A powerful and aging patriarch, wayward sons, a strategizing wife and a watchful outsider. It could be about monarchs.
Instead, the latest work from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a family with deep roots in the American civil rights movement grappling with the impact of that very history on them and on society at large.
"I was interested in this common phenomenon I was seeing historically within two generations, a kind of reversal of fortune happening, specifically as it pertained to Black political families," Jacobs-Jenkins told NPR's Michel Martin.