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Bernstein was born to a secular Jewish family in Washington, D.C. He was the son of Sylvia (née Walker) and Alfred Bernstein.[8][9] Both his parents were civil-rights activists and members of the Communist Party USA in the He attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he worked as circulation and exchange manager for the school's newspaper Silver Chips. He began his journalism career at the age of 16 when he became a copyboy for The Washington Star and moved "quickly through the ranks". The Star, however, unofficially required a college degree to write for the paper.