Radio Golf, set in a storefront redevelopment office, closes the American Century Cycle in true cyclical fashion: at the heart of the conflict lies the proposed demolition of Aunt Ester’s house, first described in Gem of the Ocean.

Using this stirring symbol as a springboard, Wilson writes characters who are caught between a new culture of prosperity and a cultural heritage that has a different set of laws and ethics. In a 2005 interview with American Theatre, Wilson stated that “my idea was that the black middle class seems to be divorcing themselves from the community, making their fortune on their own without recognizing or acknowledging their connection to the larger community…I thought: How do I show that you can go back and that you can’t?” In Radio Golf, he beautifully illustrates this paradox — the paradox of economic and personal consequence — concluding his perspective on the American Black experience in the 20th century.