The Family Business: Sylvia's

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 27, 2015

Tren'ness Woods-Black is the third generation running Sylvia's and its VP of communications. She talks about how her grandmother Sylvia Woods, known as "The Queen of Soul Food", opened the restaurant in 1962, and how Harlem has changed. Plus: what comes next for the family business.

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