Detroit Free Press’ Ellen Piligian interviews Davis about her new memoir The World According To Fannie Davis. Davis speaks about what her mother’s role as a number runner taught her: “No matter what you do, do it with integrity. … People really wanted to play with her because they could trust her.”
Davis Discusses with Terry Gross the illegal lottery/Numbers economy, which she details in her new memoir The World According To Fannie Davis. “…it was an actual economy. People were employed by the big numbers men, as they called themselves. They had various jobs that they performed. And then you had all of your different levels of customers – small bettors and big bettors.”
Davis’ New York Times essay details her mother’s profession and view on life. “She distinguished between what she called “foolish, throw your life away” gambling and the smart kind. She taught me that a gamble ought not to be reckless. It ought to be calculated, but not avoided altogether. The bigger the risk, the bigger your purpose needs to be.”
Davis delves into her family’s roots in Nashville in her essay for Literary Hub, One Family’s Story Of The Great Migration North. She writes: “I wonder too if they migrated in part because of incidents of violence against blacks attempting to vote … Did it make them speed up their migration plans, or confirm the rightness of their choice to leave their birthplace, to join others and get the hell out of the South?”
Bridgett M. Davis speaks about her new memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis, with Bookstr‘s Joshunda Sanders on FaceBook Livestream.
The New York Times included The World According To Fannie Davis as one of the “10 New Books We Recommend This Week.”
Sheila McClear spoke in-depth with Bridgett M. Davis over Davis’ mother’s experience as a Detroit number runner, and why Davis has decided to write about it in her new memoir, The World According To Fannie Davis. “… Something shifted in my understanding and my thinking, and suddenly I thought, maybe I’m doing her a disservice by not telling the story.”
Jennifer Baker of Electric Literature interviews Bridgett Davis on The World According To Fannie Davis. Baker writes “In reading Bridgett M. Davis’ new book … I gained a clearer understanding of what the phrase really meant and how the lottery’s existence was embedded in the livelihood and welfare of Black lives especially.”
