Personal Life
One of Booker's maternal great-grandfathers was caucasian, and Booker also has other European and Native American ancestry.
Booker exercises, has been a vegetarian (for health and environmental reasons) since his days at Oxford, does not drink alcohol, is uninterested in accumulating "stuff," and "has no known vices or addictions" other than books and coffee.
From 1998 to 2006, Booker lived in Brick Towers, a troubled housing complex in Newark's Central Ward. Booker organized tenants to fight for improved conditions. In November 2006, as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers, Booker left his apartment for the top unit in a three-story rental on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark's South Ward, an area described as "a drug-and gang-plagued neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty lots." Brick Towers has since been demolished and a new mixed-income development was built there in 2010.
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