D.C. bookstore MahoganyBooks will open a second store at National Harbor on June 19.
The brand, which launched online in 2007 before expanding into its Anacostia Arts Center retail location in 2017, is owned by Derrick and Ramunda Young. MahoganyBooks focuses on the work of Black authors and has hosted author events with the late Rep. John Lewis, Walter Mosley, Chimamanda Adichie, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Misty Copeland, among others. President Barack Obama recently joined the Youngs during a virtual meeting of the store’s “MahoganyBooks and Very Smart Brothas Book Club,” where they were discussing his latest book, “A Promised Land.”
The new location, located in National Harbor’s Waterfront District, will be nearly triple the size of its Anacostia location, clocking in around 1,400 square feet.
Barack Obama Crashes Zoom Meeting of Book Club Reading His Memoir Barack Obama Crashes Virtual Book Club Meeting . Now, a Word from the Author Play video content BOOK CLUB SURPRISE MahoganyBooks/Facebook
Imagine getting together with your book club and getting a surprise visit from an author, who also happens to be a former President . named
Members of the MahoganyBooks & the Very Smart Brothas Book Club had that very experience Tuesday as Obama surprised and delighted them by crashing their Zoom discussion about his memoir, A Promised Land.
Barack said he had a couple of objectives for the appearance supporting Black-owned independent bookstores, but also . he just had to meet the guys dubbed themselves the Very Smart Brothas Book Club.
February 3rd, 2021 by KRNB
ABC Some lucky people got the surprise of a lifetime when none other than
Barack Obama himself popped up in their Zoom call.
The call of a lifetime happened on Tuesday as members of the Mahogany Books & The Very Smart Brothas Book Club gathered to discuss the former President of the United States’ memoir,
A Promised Land, and, of course, the moment was captured on video.
The footage, obtained by TMZ, shows the Zoom attendees’ shocked and excited reactions when they realize Obama had joined them.
“They had scheduled somebody else but they couldn’t make it so I had to fill in,” the former POTUS joked before explaining that reason for the pop-up was to support Black-owned independent bookstores.
Pres. Barack Obama Virtually Surprised Members Of MahoganyBooks And Very Smart Brothas Book Club
The independent Black-owned book store got to speak to the former president about his latest book and more.
Published February 2nd
Mahogany Books has teamed up with the Very Smart Brothas Book Club to keep books by Black authors and the African American experience at the forefront of discussion, especially in the age of social distancing and online shopping. Co-owners and married couple, Derrick and Ramunda Young, and writer Panama Jackson have fostered this dedication to cultural representation over the last two years, which is why they were chosen to receive a visit from a very special guest during a virtual meeting on Jan. 26. They were in shock when former President Barack Obama crashed their meeting to say hello.