Brooklyn Boss

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 14, 2018

Ron Howell, associate professor of journalism at Brooklyn College and the author of Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker (Empire State Editions, 2018), tells the story of his grandfather, the early 20th-century Afro-Caribbean immigrant who became a political power broker in Brooklyn.

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