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    The world of writing

    Mar 04, 2021 4 minutes

    OBAMAS CARE

    As part of Black History Month Washington DC’s MahoganyBooks & Very Smart Brothas Book Club decided to read Barack Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land. Due to the pandemic the meeting to discuss the book was held via Zoom, moderated by the owners of the bookstore.

    The eighteen members of the club who logged in for the meeting were expecting a member of the Obama administration to join the discussion as a guest, so were astonished and delighted when the former president himself Zoomed in from his office and spent an hour discussing his book with them. A member of President Obama’s staff told theGrio that Obama considered the work within the local

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