Democracy in BlackBy: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post racial society. Americas great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle class black families by the Great Recession, it is