In Long Beach, ‘Home’ drives home the black experience as bittersweet

The story of Cephus Miles could easily apply to just about any black man born in the rural South in the early to mid-20th century and living through the turmoil of the Civil Rights era, the Vietnam War and the tumult and urban decay of the ’60s and ’70s.
That, in fact, seems to be playwright Samm-Art Williams’ point in telling Cephus’ life story in his play “Home.” That the American black experience throughout the last century, while not homogenous, can be cha