“Daddy Was a Number Runner” written by Louise Meriwether
Featured Contemporary Classic Mon-Fri @ 10am, with replays @ 11pm, and overnight @ 4am This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working […]