Keepin’ It Real for Black History Month

New book confronts hard core truths about race in America

David B. Grinberg 🇺🇸
Democracy Guardian
Published in
8 min readFeb 10, 2020

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Feb. 17, 2010, President Barack Obama, with members of Congress and school children, waves as he talks from the White House.
Photo by History in HD on Unsplash

James Baldwin, the 20th century intellectual, novelist and playwright, once observed: “History is the present. We carry our history with us. To think otherwise is criminal.”

This is an important point to ponder during Black History Month, as Baldwin was widely known as the…

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Lifelong writer, former federal government spokesman and White House political appointee. I cover a range of U.S. political and public policy issues.