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At one point, Mr. Ayers “fired” Ruffin, just as he had “fired” Ruffin’s mentor, Mollie Lowery.

When six-year-old Bradley Lowery died after a long illness - he was only 18 months when diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare type of cancer - he had become known to the whole football community.

At Housing Works, Ruffin’s mentor was Mollie Lowery, a legendary social worker who had also assisted Ayers, and whose motto in helping clients was adopted by Ruffin — “whatever it takes, for as long as it takes.”

Writer-director David Lowery has described “Mother Mary” as a “weird, weird film” and “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”

“Today, he occupies the space filled by Chris Rock in the 1990s and Dave Chappelle in the early 2000s,” Wesley Lowery wrote in the Washington Post, “A Black comedian who doubles as one of our most thoughtful political commentators.”