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	Podcast:		Sights & Sounds
	Episode:		Sights & Sounds: Vernon Keeve III's PIcks
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:06:00
	Publish Date:		2020-08-20 09:44:00
	Description:		Sights and Sounds is your weekly guide the Bay Area arts scene through the eyes and ears of local artists. During shelter-in-place, instead of recommending in-person events, we're offering suggestions for ways to experience art and culture from home. This week, host Jenee Darden speaks with educator and poet Vernon Keeve III. Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether This classic takes readers back in time to Harlem during the Great Depression where 12-year-old Francie Coffin lives with her working-class family. Her father runs numbers because he can’t find legal work. She has one brother in a gang and another who wants to be a chemist. Francie has dreams of a better life too. Although the book was written in the 1970s and takes place nearly a century ago, some of the issues Louise Meriwether presents still plague Black families today. The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker Grange Copeland is a Black farmer who leaves the South for a better future. But when he moves
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