Speak to the Speaker; National Small Business Week; Shades of Brown

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 1, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council -- representing District 3 covering Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village, and parts of Flatiron, SoHo and the Upper West Side, talks about the City Council's response to Mayor de Blasio's executive budget and other news.
  • During National Small Business Week, Gregg Bishop, commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services, takes calls from listeners and talks about the city's Commercial Lease Assistance Program, launched this year, which provides free legal assistance to small business owners on issues including leases and landlords.
  • Kevin Young, poet, director of the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of Bunk and Brown: Poems (Knopf, 2018), talks about his new collection of poetry, a reflection on race and history, including growing up as an African American in Kansas, also where the Brown v Board of Education and John Brown originated.

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