(Baltimore, MD) Best-selling author D. Watkins, "The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America," will read from his book and offer perspectives on urban challenges since the 2015 Baltimore uprising based on his best-selling book. To many, in the age of President Obama, America had succeeded in “going beyond race.” Author D. Watkins fought his way up on Baltimore's east side surviving murderous business rivals in the drug trade and equally predatory lawmen.