Topper carew biography of william

Topper Carew may be best known for co-creating and executive producing the hit 90s TV show "Martin," which rocketed comedian Martin Lawrence to fame, but he had quite a career, starting with being trained as an architect and producing TV in Boston.

For Kwani Has Questions, Carew, who remains a proud "son of Roxbury," discussed how going to elementary school outside of Roxbury, at his grandmother's insistence, led to him getting both an education and a "street education" amid the racism in Boston; how a certain John O'Bryant helped him get to what he called the "Black Harvard," Howard University; and how that education — which continued at MIT and Yale — helped as he produced "Martin" in a different way from other shows in Hollywood at the time.

Read lightly edited selections from the interview below.

Watch the full interview in the video atop this story.

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