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An exceptional father-son storyline about the truth that checks us, the myths that support us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam veterinary who rolled with the Black colored Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a posting company in his basement dedicated to telling the real history of African civilization. Primarily, he was a wily tactician whose quest was to transport his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe hands of Howard School, where he proved helpful so his children could sign up for free of charge.
Among his brood of seven, his main problems were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and delicate and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Invoice, charismatic and all-too-ready for the problems of the avenues. The Beautiful Struggle uses their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their dad’s steadfast initiatives—helped by mothers, educators, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from days gone by to meet up with the needs of the stressed present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their damage.
With a amazing potential to reimagine both the lost world of his dad’s technology and the terrors and wonders of his own children, Coates offers viewers a small and beautiful epic about young boys trying to be men in black America and beyond.
