Ron Howell's guest appearances

Ron Howell

DC37 State Of The Union

Foreign Press Association USA

Steven Greenhouse

Mark Blyth

Richard Rothstein

Teresa Ghilarducci

Tom Osborne

Kimberly Reed

Scott Stringer

Robert George

Nina Khrushcheva

Peter Jennings

Jane Carter

Mark Levine

Juan Gonzalez

Robert Kennedy

David Anderson

OwlTail

Al Sharpton

Ron Howell - veteran reporter with AP, ABC, New York Daily News and New York Newsday is a close observer of the world, the US, the city, and the media. He now teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and has been studying Black political leadership in New York, hence his last two books, including this latest “warts and all” portrait of Reverend Al Sharpton.  Through the 1980s, the mainstream press demonized Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite, even as their reflexive coverage helped make him what he is today. As host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation news program, Sharpton has more viewers than those reporters ever had readers. Today, Sharpton occupies a pedestal that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered and often scorned him three decades ago.  His chum Eric Adams is Mayor of New York – and Rhode Island University has just revoked the honorary degree of former Mayor and Sharpton baiter Rudi Giuliani!  In his perceptive coverage, Ron Howell relates Sharpton’s promotion and tells about the glory years of American newspapers, when Sharpton began his rise and about the politicians who intersected with Sharpton as he climbed the ladder.

<p>Ron Howell - veteran reporter with AP, ABC, New York Daily News and New York Newsday is a close observer of the world, the US, the city, and the media. He now teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and has been studying Black political leadership in New York, hence his last two books, including this latest “warts and all” portrait of Reverend Al Sharpton.  Through the 1980s, the mainstream press demonized Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite, even as their reflexive coverage helped make him what he is today. As host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation news program, Sharpton has more viewers than those reporters ever had readers. Today, Sharpton occupies a pedestal that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered and often scorned him three decades ago.  His chum Eric Adams is Mayor of New York – and Rhode Island University has just revoked the honorary degree of former Mayor and Sharpton baiter Rudi Giuliani!  In his perceptive coverage, Ron Howell relates Sharpton’s promotion and tells about the glory years of American newspapers, when Sharpton began his rise and about the politicians who intersected with Sharpton as he climbed the ladder.</p>

Al Sharpton, BLM and the MSM in New York with Ron Howell #FPABriefings

Erik Loomis

Erik Loomis, Professor at the University of Rhode Island, discusses his book “A History of America in Ten Strikes” and Brooklyn College Professor Ron Howell, author of “The Boss of Black Brooklyn.”

<p>Erik Loomis, Professor at the University of Rhode Island, discusses his book “A History of America in Ten Strikes” and Brooklyn College Professor Ron Howell, author of “The Boss of Black Brooklyn.”</p>

Erik Loomis and Ron Howell