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‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too

Chinonye Chukwu’s new film reminds us that before his gruesome murder galvanized a civil rights movement, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy with a doting mother.

Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler as his mother, Mamie, in “Till.”Credit...Lynsey Weatherspoon/Orion Pictures

By Manohla Dargis Published Oct. 13, 2022 Updated Oct. 16, 2022

Some stories can seem too difficult to tell, though that doesn’t seem to have crossed the mind of the director Chinonye Chukwu. In “Till,” her haunted and haunting movie about Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose barbaric murder in Mississippi in 1955 by white supremacists helped galvanize the civil rights movement, Chukwu revisits the past while doing something extremely difficult. She makes this grim American history insistently of the moment — and she does so by stripping the story down to its raw, harrowing emotional core.

In brisk strokes both sweeping and detailed, Chukwu — who shares the script credit with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp — revisits Till’s life, winding back the clock to Chicago in 1955. There, the cherubic-faced Emmett (a tender Jalyn Hall) lives with his widowed mother, Mamie (a superb Danielle Deadwyler), in a cozy house and is eagerly preparing to visit relatives in Mississippi, a trip that hangs over his mother like a worrying cloud. Yet Mamie dotes on Emmett (she calls him Bo) and, as a gift, buys him a wallet at a department store, where she tartly rebuffs a white salesclerk who tries to steer her toward the basement.

By the time that Emmett is riding a train to the South — midway through the trip, the Black passengers stand and move en masse to the rear — a divided world of post-World War II optimism and jarring racial segregation has opened up. These divisions widen once Emmett arrives in Mississippi, where he stays with the family of Mamie’s uncle, a sharecropper, Moses (John Douglas Thompson). Soon, Emmett is helping Moses and his children pick cotton under the relentless sun — the palette suggestively lightened — and the camera sweeps over Black bodies toiling in the field as Antebellum America comes to unsettling life.

The horrors of that world soon emerge with devastating consequences. Emmett, along with some relations, visits a small grocery store that caters to Black customers but is run by white people. Things rapidly spiral downward when Emmett walks into the store and meets the contemptuous gaze of the woman behind the counter. The Northern salesclerk who insulted Mamie earlier was just a better-mannered racist; he was also an ugly foreshadowing. Now, away from Mamie and the life he knows, Emmett amiably tries to engage the woman, Carolyn Bryant (Haley Bennett), whose hostility ends in catastrophic violence. That evening, several white men kidnap, torture and murder Emmett, throwing his mangled body in a river.

Chukwu doesn’t show Till’s torture and death, a decision that is a clear, emphatically ethical artistic choice. “Till” is the third feature-length movie that she has directed, the latest following her 2019 drama “Clemency,” about a Black prison warden in crisis, and her work here is impressive. She handles the larger-scale period backdrop of “Till” and sprawling cast with confidence, using her expanded tool kit prudently and without sacrificing the intimacy that helped distinguished “Clemency.” And, just as she did in that drama, which was at once anchored and elevated by Alfre Woodard’s powerful lead turn, Chukwu distills a story — its gravitational force and emotional depths — into the movie’s central performance.

With fixed intensity and supple quicksilver emotional changes, Deadwyler rises to the occasion as Mamie, delivering a quiet, centralizing performance that works contrapuntally with the story’s heaviness, its profundity and violence. The weight of Emmett Till’s murder, the horror of it — as well as both the history that preceded his death and that which followed it — is monumental, impossible, really, for one movie. Rather than attempt to convey that significance in its full sweep, Chukwu condenses it into meaningful details, fugitive moments, tranquil ellipses, explosive gestures and, especially, the face of one woman in joy and in agony.

Chukwu keeps focused on Mamie even as the world presses in, including after Emmett’s death when she’s swept up in a larger national drama and arranges an open-casket funeral — a bold, far-reaching decision — and then later travels from Chicago to Mississippi to attend the trial of his murderers. During the trial, a grotesque sham, reporters swarm, flashbulbs pop and highlighted figures enter and exit, including Medgar and Myrlie Evers (Tosin Cole and Jayme Lawson). The movie doesn’t go deep into the era’s policies and politics, but while the trial unfolds it sometimes slips into explanatory, near-pedagogical mode, including in some scenes that seem more for the viewer’s (perhaps white viewer’s) benefit than for the actual story.

In the decades since he died, Till’s murder and the still-shocking photographs of his body have been the subject of innumerable news stories, scholarly articles, nonfiction books, novels, poems, documentaries, podcasts, websites and exhibitions. At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, a painting of his corpse by the white artist Dana Schutz drew protests and criticism from Black artists. Historical markers installed in Mississippi that designate significant locations in his murder have been repeatedly vandalized. And, in March, Congress finally approved a bill — known as “the Emmett Till Antilynching Act’’ — making lynching a federal hate crime. Nearly 70 years after his death, his legacy and body remain contested ground.

Perhaps that’s why I keep returning to the image of Mamie with her mother, Alma (Whoopi Goldberg), who’s sitting near-immobilized with grief after his death. Alma’s limbs hang heavily, as if they had turned to lead, an image that mirrors Jesus as the Man of Sorrows and summons up visions of other grieving Black families. Here, as elsewhere, including the scene of Mamie with Emmett’s corpse that evokes innumerable pietàs, the sanctity of these bodies is as undeniable as their humanity. In the end, what makes “Till” cut deeply is Chukwu’s insistence that before Emmett was a victim of pathological racism and an emblem for change, he was a boy, a friend, a cousin, a grandson and Mamie’s son — a beautiful, loving and loved child.

Till Rated PG-13 for racist violence and language. Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes. In theaters.

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Trailer: The Incredible True Story of 'TILL'

Trailer: The Incredible True Story of ‘TILL’

Director: Chinonye Chukwu Writers: Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chinonye ChukwuProducers: Keith Beauchamp, p.g.a., Barbara Broccoli, p.g.a., Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly and Frederick Zollo, p.g.a.Executive Producers: Preston Holmes, Chinonye ChukwuMusic By: Abel Korzeniowski Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin…

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New Trailer and Poster For TILL Starring Danielle Deadwyler

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See the new trailer and poster for the new movie TILL starring Danielle Deadwyler. Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Written by Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp  and Chinonye Chukwu Based on the true story, see TILL in select theaters October 14th and everywhere October 28th Purchase tickets for select theaters here  Orion Pictures Presents an EON Production / A Frederick Zollo Production in…

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New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Clemency Director Chinonye Chukwu Developing The Emmett Till Story as a Film

August 28, 1955, is the day that a Black teenager from Chicago was murdered in Mississippi by a group of white men. That teen was Emmett Till and his crime was allegedly whistling at a white woman. Although the killers were never brought to justice, Till’s death and open-casket funeral (that his mother Mamie TIll Mobley demanded) is viewed as the catalyst that kicked off the Civil Rights movement. Now, Chinonye Chukwu, writer and director of Clemency is going to tell Emmett and Mamie’s story in an upcoming and yet untitled biopic.

“I am deeply honored to be telling this story and working with such an incredible producing team,” says Chinonye Chukwu.  “Amidst the pain and brutality that is inherent to Mamie and Emmett’s story, I intend to delve deeply into their humanities, the love and joy they shared, and the activist consciousness that grows within Mamie as she seeks justice for her son.”

The film is based on the 27 years of investigation that filmmaker Keith Beauchamp completed and turned over to the authorities. His work led the FBI to reopen the case is 2018, although justice has still gone unserved.

“I’m truly excited that we are teaming up with Chinonye to tell this powerful story. With Emmett Till’s name being spoken today among Black Lives Matter chants, it is more important than ever to understand why this senseless murder took place and the selfless actions taken by my dear friend Mrs Mamie Till Mobley that led to the mobilization of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement,” explains Keith Beauchamp.  This isn’t a movie, it’s a movement.”

Chukwu wrote the script and will produce alongside Beauchamp, Whoopi Goldberg, and others. Barbara Broccoli, Thomas K Levine, Michael J P Reilly, and Frederick Zollo. The film is set for release in 2021. Emmett would’ve been 80 years old.

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Nei laboratori del CEINGE, il Centro di Ingegneria Genetica e Biotecnologie Avanzate di Napoli, è nata una nuova speranza per la diagnosi e cura del tumore pediatrico del cervelletto, il medulloblastoma-gruppo 3: i ricercatori hanno svelato la “regia” delle metastasi ed hanno sperimentato in vivo un nuovo farmaco in grado non solo di fermare la proliferazione metastatica, ma di invertire il processo da maligno in benigno. La molecola è stata testata su modelli murini ed è risultata pienamente efficace e senza controindicazioni.  Ora dovrà ora essere sottoposta agli studi di tossicità e farmacodinamica nell’uomo, perché possa essere utilizzata a scopo terapeutico nei bambini. Si tratta di un traguardo importante per la diagnosi e la cura di un tipo tumore pediatrico per il quale oggi esiste solo la possibilità di attuare un protocollo cosiddetto “ad alto rischio”. In pratica non esiste terapia. Lo studio, pubblicato sulla prestigiosa rivista scientifica internazionale “Brain” (Oxford, Journal of Neurology), è stato realizzato dall’equipe di ricercatori coordinata da Massimo Zollo, docente di Genetica presso l’Università Federico II di Napoli Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche e “Principal Investigator” del CEINGE, responsabile di Unità e della “Banca dei Gruppi Rari” presso il Dipartimento Assistenziale di Medicina Trasfusionale della Azienda Ospedaliera Federico II. La ricerca: come sono stati definiti i meccanismi molecolari che coordinano le metastasi nel medulloblastoma di Gruppo 3 Gran parte degli esperimenti, avviati da Pasquale de Antonellis, sono stati eseguiti da una giovane dottoranda della SEMM (Scuola Europea di Medicina Molecolare con sede al CEINGE).  Veronica Ferrucci ha identificato il meccanismo di azione del processo metastatico che parte da medullosfere “cellule staminali tumorali” presenti nel cervelletto e genera metastasi nella colonna spinale del bambino affetto. Questa azione è stata replicata in modelli murini, che hanno subito xenotrapianto delle cellule di gruppo 3 ed è stato dimostrato che è possibile inibire il processo di proliferazione e di migrazione di queste cellule nel cervelletto dei topi le quali non sono più in grado di attivare il processo metastatico grazie all’uso di un nuovo farmaco messo a punto dal gruppo di ricerca e testato per la sua efficacia e tossicità nel modello murino. Un altro dato presente nel lavoro dimostra che la combinazione tra le radiazioni alle cellule metastatiche di MB gruppo 3 e la presenza del farmaco raggiunge un effetto superiore rispetto al singolo utilizzo delle due componenti terapeutiche e che è quindi applicabile nell’ambito di protocolli di terapia “convenzionale” per i tumori definiti “ad alto rischio” nel bambino. Inoltre, grazie agli studi di Next-Generation-Sequencing svolti nella facility del CEINGE e coordinati dal prof. Francesco Salvatore e dalla dott.ssa Valeria d’Argenio, sono state identificate le mutazioni occorrenti durante la progressione tumorale con il sequenziamento dell’intero genoma delle cellule metastatiche del bambino affetto da medulloblastoma del gruppo 3. «In questo modo sono stati identificati altri nuovi “geni targets” - spiega Massimo Zollo - le cui mutazioni erano sconosciute per la terapia nell’uomo. Questo studio definisce per prima volta che i tumori nel cervelletto del bambino presentano geni mutati che influenzano negativamente l’azione del sistema immunitario attivo nel cervello. Quindi l’approccio immunoterapeutico che agisce attraverso una sua specifica attivazione delle cellule immunitarie stesse per combattere il tumore deve essere usato con cautela proprio per la presenza di meccanismi genetici di evasione dall’azione del sistema immunitario nel combattere il Medulloblastoma». «Si tratta del primo lavoro che dimostra una efficacia di terapia nei tumori di gruppo 3 di Medulloblastoma – sottolinea Zollo –, al momento lo studio dimostra efficacia in modelli murini e mostra assenza di tossicità nel topo, ma apre la strada all’utilizzo nell’uomo, che potrà essere attuato appena saranno completati gli studi di tossicità e farmacodinamica nell’uomo». 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Gli studi molecolari legati alla sintesi e alla definizione attraverso studi dinamici di interazione del farmaco con la proteina Prune-1 sono stati condotti dal Prof. Aldo Galeone (Federico II di Napoli, dipartimento di Farmacia) e dal Prof. Roberto Fattorusso (Università L. Vanvitelli). Hanno partecipato allo studio anche laboratori di ricerca internazionali. In particolare, in Inghilterra il Cancer Research Institute (Prof. Louis Chesler), col quale sono stati condivisi modelli murini del modello di medulloblastoma del gruppo 3,  l’Istituto Curie di Parigi (Prof. Olivier Delattre), l’Università di Dusseldolf in Germania (Prof. Mark Remke ed Dr. Pickard), l’Università di Uppsala in Svezia (Prof. Frederick Swartling), l’Università di San Francisco, California USA (Prof. William Weiss). Infine, di enorme importanza è stata la collaborazione con il Sick-Kids Hospital di Toronto in Canada, coordinato dal Prof. Michael Taylor, soprattutto con i suoi collaboratori, due scienziati italiani il Dr. Pasqualino De Antonellis e Dr.ssa Livia Garzia, ex studenti del Prof. Zollo. L’importanza della scoperta e l’appello di Zollo per il futuro delle terapie I risultati della ricerca hanno implicazioni nel campo medico diagnostico e terapeutico. Sarà possibile effettuare diagnosi precoci della patologia per identificare l’asse di azione molecolare di questo gruppo di tumori, ma soprattutto sarà possibile curare i bambini grazie all’identificazione della molecola che è in grado di bloccare il processo metastatico indotto da Prune-1, al momento testata nei modelli murini di gruppi 3 di medulloblastoma. «Ora siamo in grado di fare diagnosi dei medulloblastoma del gruppo 3 - chiarisce Zollo – che purtroppo hanno attualmente una prognosi infausta. 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Leo è stato con noi, è entrato nei laboratori, ha conosciuto i nostri ricercatori. Ha voluto che gli spiegassimo cosa facciamo. Il suo coraggio non è stato vano». Lo studio del gruppo del prof. Zollo è stato fatto proprio su un campione di Leo. Da allora Zollo e i suoi non hanno smesso un attimo di studiare, di provare, di verificare. «C’è voluta tanta tenacia, fatica e determinazione per portare avanti questo studio e tutte le forze messe in campo, parlo di tutte le collaborazioni nazionali ed internazionali che abbiano avuto, hanno avuto un ruolo importante. E non nascondo che Leo è stato ed è sempre nei nostri cuori, la nostra guida». Leo se ne è andato nell’ottobre del 2015. Nessuno ha dimenticato quel coraggioso bambino, il suo sorriso, la sua forza. La scuola che frequentava, insieme alla famiglia, agli insegnanti e agli alunni, sostiene con una serie di iniziative la ricerca scientifica, che si svolge a Napoli. Forse proprio grazie a Leonardo oggi Massimo Zollo può finalmente dare la “buona notizia”: il medulloblastoma di tipo 3 si potrà sconfiggere. «Basta andare sulla pagina Facebook della scuola di Leonardo, leggere quello che fanno i suoi compagni di scuola, vedere tutto l’amore e la solidarietà che esiste, per capire perché lavoriamo senza sosta», ha detto Massimo Zollo, il ricercatore napoletano che lo stesso Leo ha voluto conoscere e al quale ha lasciato in eredità una parte di se stesso. Il medulloblastoma gruppo 3: il più aggressivo e infausto dei tumori del cervelletto nel bambino Il medulloblastoma del gruppo 3 è un tumore tipicamente metastatico, colpisce il cervelletto e il IV ventricolo e produce man mano metastasi nella colonna spinale. La diagnosi avviene mediate risonanza magnetica e non sempre è possibile intervenire chirurgicamente.  I bambini colpiti da medulloblastoma del gruppo 3, infatti, possono essere sottoposti ad intervento neurochirurgico solo in alcuni casi, quando cioè il tumore è circoscritto e raggiungibile, e l’unica terapia attuabile consiste in cicli di chemio e radioterapia che generano effetti collaterali sul sistema nervoso centrale. Circa il 50% dei casi dopo circa 2 anni ha una prognosi infausta. I sintomi sono a carico dell’apparato motorio: i bambini cominciano ad avere difficoltà di movimento, a volte crisi epilettiche. Il tumore può insorgere nei primi due anni di vita del bambino, durante lo sviluppo del cervelletto, o successivamente, quando il cervelletto si à formato. Read the full article

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“Till,” Reviewed: A Work of Mighty Cinematic Portraiture

In Chinonye Chukwu’s ardent film, the bonds of love have an inescapably political power.

By Richard Brody October 13, 2022

In “Till,” the director Chinonye Chukwu dramatizes the life and death of Emmett Till, a Black fourteen-year-old from Chicago, who was lynched in a small Mississippi town, in 1955. The movie reveals the story’s many hidden, deep-rooted, and wide-ranging dimensions beneath the specifics of family tragedy and local crime. It shows how the scope of the crime expanded to the center of national news and politics, sparking outrage and galvanizing the civil-rights movement—namely, through the courageous determination of Emmett’s mother, Mamie Bradley (Danielle Deadwyler). The movie (written by Chukwu, Michael Reilly, and Keith Beauchamp) looks in exacting detail at the specific and surprising nature of that commitment, and how she brought her personal experience into history in the present tense. What’s more, Chukwu develops a specific aesthetic, of analytical ardor, to embody the story in images—because the movie’s story is, essentially, one of images, of sight.

Emmett (Jalyn Hall) is a lively, good-humored teen with a sense of flair and style—a good dancer, an eye for clothes—and a warm smile. He’s looking forward to his trip to Mississippi, where he’ll stay with his aunt and uncle and visit with his cousins. But Mamie is apprehensive, because she knows well that white people there expect and demand Black people to be deferential and submissive, on pain of death, and she urges Emmett to conform to the behavior of his relatives; he agrees, but Mamie is desperately worried nonetheless. Emmett heads down South by train with his uncle Mose (John Douglas Thompson), called Preacher, and discovers the nature of Jim Crow en route when the train approaches the Mason-Dixon Line and all Black passengers are required to head to the rear of the train.

The movie depicts Emmett’s fateful interaction with a white shopkeeper, Carolyn Bryant (Haley Bennett), in all its innocent triviality, and the immediate recognition by Emmett’s cousins and other local Black people that it’s likely the cause of terrible trouble. Emmett is seized at gunpoint by white men who break into Preacher’s house. The murder of Emmett isn’t shown, just suggested, from a great distance, outside the house where it happened, with brief and vague sounds of violence and horrific screams. Mamie is informed that Emmett has been kidnapped, and his disappearance quickly moves into the political sphere: her parents, John Carthan (Frankie Faison) and Alma Carthan (Whoopi Goldberg), who were divorced, introduce her to a cousin, Rayfield Mooty (Kevin Carroll), who works with the N.A.A.C.P. and affirms that the organization will contact high officials, including the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, to help Emmett. His kidnapping becomes news; politicians take an interest in finding Emmett. Then Mamie is told of Emmett’s death, of his body being identified by his ring (that belonged to his late father), and of Mississippi’s plan to bury Emmett there.

That official scheme, to get Emmett’s body quickly and permanently out of sight, provides the movie with its fulcrum, and it’s Mamie who discovers the power of leverage that results. The film’s great shift occurs in her meeting, on a porch, with Rayfield, in which she utters one of the movie’s key lines: “I need to see him.” (Chukwu films the meeting in a poised wide shot that lends it the grandeur of a history painting.) She demands that Emmett’s body be brought back to Chicago. Rayfield protests, wanting her to put her personal emotion aside in order to bring pressure, instead, for a federal anti-lynching bill. But Mamie vehemently insists that the N.A.A.C.P. first bring Emmett home.

To Rayfield and other organizers, Mamie’s intransigence seems shortsighted, even unduly personal. But her position is guided by an unerring sensibility and principle—an immediate and primordial fidelity to personal experience, to the bonds of love—that prove to be overarchingly political, and the very basis of solidarity and collective action. Emmett’s body is placed on a slab in a Chicago mortuary, where Mamie, her fiancé, Gene Mobley (Sean Patrick Thomas), and the coroner observe it. Only when Mamie orders the two men out of the room, so that she can have private time with her son, does “Till” show the horrific mutilation of Emmett’s body, suggesting the monstrous violence to which he was subjected. (Chukwu makes the point conspicuous, even emphatic, by interposing a table between the camera and the body until the men leave.) The movie shows the body from Mamie’s perspective, not just visually but, above all, emotionally, because that proves to be exactly how, and why, the world at large came to see Emmett’s body, too.

Mamie insists that Emmett’s funeral be open-casket, and that his body be unadorned by the mortician’s cosmetics. Her reasons are as literal as they are emotional: his condition is so appalling that people won’t believe it unless they see it, and she knows that the emotional power of the sheer fact of his mutilation will prove to be of crucial political power. Outside the church where the funeral is being held, she gives a brief, remarkable speech to the press and assembled mourners: “That smell is my son’s body, reeking of racial hatred. Now I want America to bear witness.” She invites a Black news photographer (Noel Sampson) into the church, where he creates images, published in Jet magazine, that quickly became historic.

In response to the outcry over Emmett’s killing, two white men were indicted for his murder, and “Till” dramatizes in great detail the proceedings in the kangaroo court, composed entirely of white male officials and jurors, that acquitted them. Here, too, the movie follows the events from Mamie’s perspective. Defying death threats, she heads to rural Mississippi to testify at the trial, because the killers’ attorney makes the cruel defense that the body, mutilated unrecognizably, was in fact not Emmett’s—even that the lynching was a hoax, meant to advance the cause of the N.A.A.C.P., and that Emmett was still alive but hidden away.

Chukwu presents an analytical panorama of Jim Crow, of the legal system that perpetuates racist policies overtly and covertly, and of the social system that extends beyond it; these systems operate by means of explicit and implicit threats of violence that come from white people who do so in the confidence that the law will stand behind them. (There’s another majestic cinematic history-painting, of Mamie and Preacher, in which he details Black Mississippians’ endurance of official and unofficial racism that is, as he puts it metaphorically, a matter of the very air they breathe.) The movie shows, movingly, the daring and dangerous organization required of Black people to insist on their rights (including the elaborate evasive measures that Mamie needed to take en route to the trial). The presence of Medgar Evers (Tosin Cole) among Mamie’s associates and supporters is a shocking reminder of the violence that civil-rights activists faced. There’s a suggestion of the essentially gendered, sexualized nature of racist violence in the apparent naïveté of a sign near the town of Sumner, where the trial was held: “A great place to raise a boy.” And there’s a crucial reminder of the essential connection between endemic gun ownership and the enforcement of white supremacy.

But, above all, “Till” is a work of mighty cinematic portraiture, with a range of closeups of Mamie that infuse the film with an overwhelming combination of subjective depth and an outward sense of purpose. These images depend for that vast spectrum of feeling upon Deadwyler’s performance, one of the most radiantly, resonantly expressive to grace the screen this year. As the star of a film about the power and principle of vision, Deadwyler says more in a glance than other actors might in a soliloquy, and her discourse—as in Mamie’s calmly outraged testimony at trial, done in a single extended take—conveys the authoritative strength of prophecy. What’s more, her performance, for all its concentrated energy, extends to the realm of the vitally physical in a moment of ecstatic silence, after she addresses a crowd in Harlem on behalf of the N.A.A.C.P., when her upper lip trembles. Mamie, having had her life transformed against her will, having been forced to take on a public role that she’d never have wanted, has come to recognize that the life of a Black person in the United States is essentially and inescapably political, and demands her ongoing and unrelenting action. ♦