![]() ![]() This event includes a signing with books for sale. ![]() A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she is the director of the award-winning feature film Naked Acts and the author of two novels, Into the Go-Slow and Shifting Through Neutral. Davis is a Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches creative, film, and narrative writing. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mothers Life in the Detroit Numbers-once upon a time, there was a little girl whose mom was an illegal number runner. Join us as she discusses her mother, the family secret, and this critically-acclaimed new memoir.īridgett M. Her family’s livelihood was entirely dependent on her mother’s business- a hugely successful underground lottery known as The Numbers, which her mother ran for over three decades from her dining room table.ĭavis has written an exquisite memoir of her mother in The World According To Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers. The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mothers Life in the Detroit Numbers is Bridgett Davis story of growing up in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s while. ![]() Davis grew up in Detroit with a secret-one she continued to safeguard into her adult years. ![]() Award-winning filmmaker and author Bridgett M. ![]()
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