Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  Notes from Book Discussion May 22, 2021   The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers    by Bridgett Davis 2019 17 of us met over Zoom.   I began the discussion with questions about redlining and predatory lending, especially since most of the people in this group had also participated in Cultural Academy II, where we discussed these kinds of issues in Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns .   Marion S. offered that because of the redlining, Fannie couldn’t get a loan from the bank; she had to borrow from somebody and ended up paying huge interest. Marian: Plus, she didn’t even get the deed to her house for like 14 years. Marsha: I was wondering what if that man had died? Would his wife honor that agreement? Did his wife even know about the agreement?   Shelara: That’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in his article about redlining and tied it in to reparations … that happens a lot, people had been paying this money and the