Wednesday night wasn’t supposed to be Sonya Curry’s night

And she made sure of that as she made her way to her front-row reserved seat at a nearly packed Cramton Auditorium at Howard University without much fanfare.

Wearing a black hat with a brim covering the top half of her face, blue jeans and blue leather sneakers

One of the NBA’s most visible moms hardly stood out among the crowd that had waited patiently to see a documentary for which one of the league’s biggest stars serves as executive producer.

Wednesday night, Sonya Curry was just fine being Stephen Curry’s mom.

“Well, right in the middle of [the screening], I texted [husband] Dell and was like, ‘I think this is one of the top proudest moments as a mom for me.’ And then I texted [Stephen’s wife] Ayesha the same thing,” Curry said. “I’ve cried the whole night, for one, from the movie itself, and two, just … I’m really, truly amazed that God is using my son and allowing him to be a part of things like this, but also allowing me to be witness to it as well. So it is truly just … it just blows me away.”

The screening of Emanuel, which tells the story — in painstaking detail, through the eyes of surviving relatives, journalists, coroners and local officials — of how 21-year-old Dylann Roof walked into a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, and murdered nine African-Americans, pulled no punches.

Executive produced by Stephen Curry’s new production company, Unanimous Media, along with actress Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, organizers of the event promised the waiting crowd that Curry himself would make an appearance and take part in a post-screening talk-back.

But when the houselights finally went down at 8:33 p.m., a full hour after the film’s scheduled start, a Stephen Curry sighting hardly mattered. It was 2015 again, a time in America when race, police brutality and injustice toward black people dominated the headlines and our collective consciousness.

“I was in Charleston right after the shooting, and there are perspectives in this film that I just hadn’t heard before,” explained DeRay Mckesson, who became synonymous with the protest movement that developed in the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 and who also has become a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement.

“It’s always important that we tell a full story,” Mckesson went on. “For me personally, as somebody who was with the protesters both for Walter Scott [on April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina, after a daytime traffic stop] and during this moment, it is in some ways still too recent, you know? I think this shows parts of the story in one place [that] we just haven’t seen before. So there are perspectives that … I think I need a little more time. A happy aside, it’s important that this [film] exists, and there are some parts of this that I think will trigger people in a way that [will generate] conversation just like they did tonight.”

It was Sonya Curry’s first time seeing the film, first time seeing her son onstage with the documentarians, and she found herself seeing her oldest of three kids in a whole different light.

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Source: The Wall Street Journal