Errol Louis is a New York City-based journalist and radio show host.

Louis is the current host of Inside City Hall, a program about New York City politics that airs nightly on NY1

NY1

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. Prior to joining NY1 in November of 2010, Louis was a columnist for the New York Daily News

New York Daily News

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, where he also served on the editorial board

Editorial board

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. On June 23, 2008, Louis became host of the Morning Show, a three-hour talk program on radio station WWRL

WWRL

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; in 2009 he was succeeded by Mark Riley in that position. In November 2010 the Village Voice named him the city's best newspaper columnist and radio show host.

Louis is a CNN

CNN

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 contributor. He made frequent appearances on Lou Dobbs Tonight

Lou Dobbs Tonight

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 and other CNN news programs.

Formerly an associate editor of The New York Sun, Louis joined the Daily News in 2004 and for many years wrote a column, Commerce and Community, for Our Time Press, which is published weekly and based in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

He has taught college courses, co-founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, and was once named by New York Magazine as one of 10 New Yorkers Making a Difference "with energy, vision and independent thinking."

Louis holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard, an M.A. in Political Science from Yale

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, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School

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. He was raised in New Rochelle and lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

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with his wife, Juanita Scarlett.