Drinks and again a careful book selection and invite people in and have a love of regulars. Some of them write books. Sometimes we get to celebrate them after they are launched into the world and tonight we are incredibly excited to welcome dale beran here how an army accidentally named donald trump into office. This week while it feels especially special to welcome him to speak about the topic in the city of baltimore in the base that we often like to say is yes weve got caught and food and books there are transactional elements but what we are here to do is build communities and celebrate culture and a place that is incredibly important, and im speaking to a roomful of people who love baltimore, and i think the assertion is the only answer like this week where maybe a certain culture and reduction of nuance truths have come to the floor and i think possibly we will get to discuss that tonight. A cartoonist and a professor at Morgan State University will lead us. We are proud to know
Got into writing about africanamerican history in washington, d. C. Was because of barack obama and his campaign. There was a lot of interest in African American history, having the first africanamerican president in the white house. I was lucky enough to be assigned by the Associated Press to cover obama that weekend. I remember holding up pulling to the obamas townhouse in chicago thinking about what book what i write next. And right at that spot is when it hit me. I got so excited about the topic and so i immediately called my editor. Down mydiately tamped enthusiasm and told me to think about it. Really sure that i had a good idea about what i wanted to do. Brian what was the idea . Jesse the idea was to write a story about the africanamerican slaves who lived inside the white house. Was still the country talking about how great and how unique it would be if an africanamerican president lived inside the white house. I said to myself, i understand that would be great but he cannot h