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Number's Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family

Number's Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family

Levi, Johnisha Matthews

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralBlack American History

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 198590232X
ISBN13: 9781985902329
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.61
Language: English

A piece of paper with a previously undisclosed truth has the power to bring you to your knees.

For four decades, Johnisha Matthews Levi believed a conventional story about her birth, picturing her happy parents at the hospital together. While sorting through her late mother's belongings, however, she discovered a document indicating that her father was instead serving time in Lorton Correctional Complex. This revelation, along with rumors about an FBI investigation of her deceased parents' private business, leads Levi to unearth the hidden history of her family. She ties this story to public policy, demonstrating how state lottery legalization and the War on Drugs disrupted the Black institutions and communities in Washington, DC.

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