Mirella rolled her eyes as Penelope quoted Ralph. The People need their music, Mirella. It’s not just me—it’s all for The People. Ralph and Lionel’s speeches about blackness and Brooklyn, entrepreneurship, all centered on The People, the community that needed their businesses. The People thrived when they thrived. After all her years in Brooklyn, Mirella had come to know buildings and strangers, her daughter, the neighbors, the men who worked at the drugstore, Ralph and his friends. She had yet to meet The People.
