Al Sharpton
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Baptist Minister & Political, Civil Rights, and Social Justice Activist. Host of Politics Nation with Al Sharpton, MSNOW.
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Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson
There is a moment in every young person’s life when they encounter someone who makes them believe that the world can be different—that they can be different—and nothing is ever the same again. For me, that moment came because of my mother. Article continues after advertisement I was twelve years old when my mother brought me to Reverend William Augustus Jones, the great pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn.
Al Sharpton: It’s time to phase out horse carriages
People ride in a horse-drawn carriage in Central Park on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News) PUBLISHED: October 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT As a proud son of Brownsville and a lifelong New Yorker, I have watched this city reinvent itself many times over my 72 years, and I have spent my life fighting for working people and communities too often left behind.
Albany must lead on autonomous vehicles
Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News A Tesla Cybercab robotaxi, with a human driver behind the wheel, is spotted on Utica Ave. in Brooklyn on September 7. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) PUBLISHED: September 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT At first glance, New York City just logged its safest year for traffic deaths in decades — down 31% since Vision Zero launched in 2014.
Sharpton’a İftira Davası Tehdidi
Al Sharpton, Nolan Wells’in ölümüyle ilgili yaptığı açıklamalarla ilgili olarak hakkında ihtarname çıkarılmasına “Davayı memnuniyetle karşılıyorum” sözleriyle yanıt verdi. Wells’in üç arkadaşının avukatları, Sharpton’a Cuma günü gönderilen 19 sayfalık ihtarnamede, Temmuz ve Ağustos aylarında yaptığı iftira niteliğindeki açıklamalar nedeniyle özür ve geri çekme talep etti. “Önce beni dava etsinler” diyen Sharpton, avukatların talebi üzerine açıklama yaptı.
N.Y. pays big for a rigged drug program
It’s no secret that for working families, the cost of healthcare has spiraled out of control. But much less known is the degree to which the 340B Drug Pricing Program, built to help the patients who need it most, has been quietly making it worse for years. Originally created as a safety net, 340B has instead become a profit net for conglomerate hospital systems and national chain pharmacies.
Keeping Black and Brown N.Y.ers here
Black and Brown homeowners are struggling to make ends meet, leaving the boroughs in record numbers and endangering our political landscape, and in desperate need of relief. That relief is on the table, but only if we overcome the racially charged attacks standing in its way. A bill before the City Council would make modest fixes to Local Law 18, which nearly wiped out the short-term rental industry.
Al Sharpton: The fight to save DEI now comes to Wall Street
Diversity, equity, and inclusion has faced its greatest threats yet since Donald Trump promised a “society that is color-blind and merit-based” in his inauguration this January. Across town, in the church that held the funerals of Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks, members of the National Action Network and I made a vow to fight for the billions of dollars promised to us after our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents couldn’t even jump to grab the brass ring.
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, our voices are being eroded
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Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, our voices are being eroded
‘Fear persists, perhaps stronger than ever. The solution to it all remains the right to vote.’ Photograph: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum In a moment when we should be celebrating one of the most important pieces of legislation in American history, we are in fact at a worse place as a nation than when it was passed. Those of us fighting to protect the right to vote find ourselves against a movement that doesn’t want to take us back to 1965.
Albany must dos this final week: Transportation equity for peer-to-peer car sharing
New York is finally building like it means it. The Port Authority Bus Terminal is getting the upgrade it’s needed for decades, the Interborough Express is set to connect Brooklyn and Queens like never before, and in Syracuse, they are tearing down I-81 — a highway that split Black communities in two. That’s all progress. But let’s be real: More must be done immediately to support Black New Yorkers access to affordable transportation.
We demanded justice after George Floyd’s death. Donald Trump made things worse, but we fight on
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We demanded justice after George Floyd’s death. Donald Trump made things worse, but we fight on | Al Sharpton
Yesterday, I led a private memorial service at George Floyd’s graveside, along with his family, in Houston, Texas. Once that was over, we visited the housing project where Floyd and his siblings grew up. Half a decade after Floyd was taken from them, they were keen, as are we, to ensure his life and legacy will not be forgotten – and to remind the world why the fight for police accountability continues. He died in front of the entire world.
New York should lead on grocery affordability
The airwaves and headlines are awash with story after story about inflation’s devastating impact on American families. The rising weight of grocery bills stands above all else when it comes to the economic challenges facing working families. And as is too often the case when negative economic pressures mount, it is communities of color that disproportionately bear the brunt, deepening the financial instability of countless families and exasperating inequality.
In these dark times, Americans must harness the power of the civil rights movement again | Al Sharpton
It can often be challenging to keep track of everything in Donald Trump’s US; the executive orders, the changes to decades-long protocols, the draconian legislation, the abandonment of established policies – and just the utter chaos. That in itself is part of the Trump administration’s strategy – throw everything at us all at once to see what sticks and what they can get away with. There is, in fact, so much happening simultaneously that it is virtually impossible to tackle it all.
The next balancing act in health equity: Obesity
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Al Sharpton: Black adults need weight-loss drugs not covered by Medicare - The Washington Post
August 14, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT The Rev. Al Sharpton is president of the National Action Network. In about five years, half the population of the United States . This isn’t alarmist rhetoric. It’s the alarming reality — and a stunning rebuke to our nation’s health-care policies, underlining how our failure over decades to drive meaningful intervention has ceded ground to an epidemic. The good news is that today, a new class of weight-loss drugs is finally making inroads in the fight against obesity.
Al Sharpton & Lloyd Williams: Honoring Harlem’s past and inspiring the future: Harlem Week at 50
If you bottled up the Black experience in the United States over the last 100 years and put a name on it, the most fitting name would be Harlem. New York City’s arguably largest, most historic Black neighborhood has hummed with the rhythm of jazz, the bebop sounds of Dizzy Gillespie, the beats of hip-hop, the poetry of Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, and given us the prose of James Baldwin. Yet it has also seen the worst of underinvestment, urban decay, and crime fueled by gang and drug wars.
Rev. Al Sharpton on Biden's legacy and Harris's role
(National Action Network) – President Joe Biden is more than this moment. The crisis the president has struggled with for the past month should not erase his some 50 years of near-continuous service to the American people. Among other things, he has delivered time and again for Black America. That will be Biden’s legacy. It’s for that reason that Democrats must now support the woman who has stood alongside him throughout his presidency.
Al Sharpton: Joe Biden Has a Legacy in Black America. Kamala Harris Can Keep It Going. Original
Joe Biden is more than this moment. The crisis the president has struggled with for the past month should not erase his some 50 years of near-continuous service to the American people. Among other things, he has delivered time and again for Black America. That will be Mr. Biden's legacy. It's for that reason that Democrats must now support the woman who has stood alongside him throughout his presidency.
Eric Adams’ critics sound like Dinkins’
What if I told you that there was a mayor who, during his first two fiscal years in office: cut unemployment by 20%; lowered murders, shootings and crime overall; brought transit crime to record low levels; lifted the test scores of city schoolchildren; and directly raised the wages of more than half-a-million workers?
If we the Black voters ‘get loud’, neither the Tories nor Donald Trump will survive
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Mogul Byron Allen And Al Sharpton Make Up After Accusations And Lawsuit: Sharpton Gets TheGrio’s Justice Icon Award
By Ann Brown There was a time in 2015 when media mogul Byron Allen and civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton were at odds. But it seems the dispute has been resolved as Sharpton was recently honored by theGrio news platform, which Allen owns. In 2015, a federal judge ruled to reopen the $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit filed by Allen’s Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc.
New York State must ban non-compete agreements
At a time when women and people of color are fighting to get their full value in the marketplace, New York has an opportunity to even the playing field for them by ending a form of corporate bondage that has no place in a modern economy. For too long, New York has allowed corporations to use non-compete agreements to hold down wages and stymie opportunities for professionals in scores of fields, from doctors to financial analysts and creative directors to pharmacists.
Attempts to Corporatize Voting in Delaware Reveal New Threat to American Democracy
Imagine changing the preamble to the U.S. Constitution to read: “We the Corporations of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Deal for Business, establish unlivable wages, ensure company profits, provide substandard work conditions, and secure the Blessings of Billions in Posterity to CEOs and the wealthy elite, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Corporate States of America.” Crazy? Think again.
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Philonise Floyd, Attorney Ben Crump Discuss Growing BLM Protests and Calls for Change - The View Movie Trailer
N.Y.’s failed cannabis rollout: The state dropped the ball on setting up a legal market for marijuana
In the two years since New York legalized adult-use cannabis, the state Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) has licensed 66 retailers in the state, but just five have opened their doors to the public. Meanwhile, from the five boroughs to Albany to Buffalo and everywhere in between, there are countless illegal shops selling unregulated cannabis out of storefronts and mobile dispensaries.
Activist Ben Crump announces lawsuit against FBI and NYPD over Malcolm X assassination
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I Have Seen Race Hate in the US and UK and the Message Is the Same: No One Is Free Until We Are All Free
I came to London more than 30 years ago to protest against the vicious murder of 15-year-old Rolan Adams. He and his younger brother were waiting at a bus stop when they were chased by a gang of white teenagers, many yelling racial epithets. Adams was stabbed in the neck with a butterfly knife and died. The white mobs here were eerily similar to the white mobs we witnessed while protesting in places like Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
I have seen race hate in the US and UK and the message is the same: no one is free until we are all free | Al Sharpton
I came to London more than 30 years ago to protest against the vicious murder of 15-year-old Rolan Adams . He and his younger brother were waiting at a bus stop when they were chased by a gang of white teenagers, many yelling racial epithets. Adams was stabbed in the neck with a butterfly knife and died. The white mobs here were eerily similar to the white mobs we witnessed while protesting in places like Bensonhurst , Brooklyn.
Tod von Nichols: Wann endet rassistische US-Polizeigewalt?
Der durch Polizeigewalt getötete Tyre Nichols ist in Memphis beigesetzt worden. Auch nach der Beerdigung fragt man sich in den USA: Wie kann rassistische Gewalt gestoppt werden? An der Beerdigung des durch Polizeigewalt getöteten 29-Jährigen Tyre Nichols nahm auch US-Vizepräsidentin Kamala Harris teil. "Es sollte kein weiteres Kind mehr geben, das so leidet wie mein Sohn und alle Eltern hier, die ihre Kinder verloren haben", sagt RowVaughn Wells mit zittriger Stimme.
Gov. Carney, don't compromise Delaware's justice system. We need Black justices | Opinion
3 minute read Keandra McDole, Al Sharpton and Blaine Hackett Special to the USA TODAY Network An open letter to Delaware Gov.
8 Most Stylish Black Politicians
It goes without saying, but the world of politics can get quite stale when the nation isn’t in the midst of a presidential election, nationwide crisis or viral scandal that puts the subject at risk of losing it all on the Hill. However, in the midst of policy-making and signing bills into law, there’s been an underlying culture of fashion-forward politicians who unintentionally make the courtroom feel less boring by simply turning it into Fashion Week.
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We’re not going back to normal. We died in normal: America needs to face health inequity
In April, during National Minority Health Month, community and health leaders, legislators and allies across the nation have united to secure resources and mobilize to address health disparities that have impacted the Black community and other people of color for decades and have gotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic. Black people continue to die from COVID-19 at a rate nearly double the white population in large measure because of preexisting health conditions and low vaccination rates.
We’re not going back to normal. We died in normal: America needs to face health inequity
Let's confront underlying health disparities that contributed to excess Black deaths from COVID-19 and remain the silent killers that haunt America. Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Calvin O.
The Department Of The Treasury Pledges To Promote Racial Equity And Black Economic Institutions - Blavity
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo / Photo Credit: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg Last week, the National Action Network held its 2022 convention. The New York City-based civil rights organization founded by Rev. Al Sharpton attracted a plethora of notable figures to speak, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Democratic National Committee Chairperson Jaime Harrison and various community leaders and officials from the Biden administration.
Mayoral control of schools: A civil-rights imperative
By Al Sharpton New York Daily News | Mar 06, 2022 at 5:00 AM Last November, New Yorkers made history twice by electing Eric Adams as mayor. Not only did we elect the second African-American as mayor in our city’s history, but we also put a Black mayor in charge of our public schools for the first time since mayoral accountability of schools began in 2002. As the founder of one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations, I am not blind to the historical significance of this moment.
Rev Al Sharpton Exclusive: Why These Unsung 'Righteous Troublemakers,' From Pauli Murray To Claudette Colvin, Deserve Their Flowers - Blavity
Rev. Al Sharpton / Photo Credit: Christopher Moore / Courtesy of Actum LLC If you’re interested in sharing your opinion on any cultural, political or personal topic, create an account here and check out our how-to post to learn more. ____ In the ongoing struggle for freedom, civil rights, fairness and social justice, it’s sometimes difficult to pause and reflect upon all the progress that has been achieved.
'Righteous Troublemakers' By Reverend Al Sharpton
Righteous Troublemakers, By Reverend Al Sharpton Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice in America… RIGHTEOUS TROUBLEMAKERS Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America by Reverend Al Sharpton “This is the time.
Rev. Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the Pursuit of Justice
Rev. Sharpton, Ben Crump, and the Pursuit of Justice Episode Summary Can Black people in America ever experience true justice? Episode Notes Looking back on 2021, it felt like maybe Black Americans got closer to knowing justice.In April, Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. And the day before Thanksgiving, three white men were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But 2021 wasn't all about victories.
Sensors add to accuracy and power of U.S. nuclear weapons but may create new security perils
A sophisticated electronic sensor buried in hardened metal shells at the tip of a growing number of America’s ballistic missiles reflects a significant achievement in weapons engineering that experts say could help pave the way for reductions in the size of the country’s nuclear arsenal but also might create new security perils.
We're still fighting for America's right to vote.
Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, also known as H.R. 4. This bill would restore significant provisions of the Voting Rights Act which were gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013. While this is welcomed news, no Republicans in the House voted in favor of H.R. 4, and it faces an uphill battle in the Senate. The party's refusal to support the bill named for John Lewis comes on the heels of Republican obstruction of the For The People Act.
Biz Markie To Be Celebrated During Funeral Service Led By Rev. Al Sharpton
By: Mike WinslowCategory: NewsAugust 1, 2021 The Hip-Hop community will Biz Markie tomorrow during his funeral proceedings, which will be attended by a variety of rap stars. Revered rapper Biz Markie will be laid to rest tomorrow (August 2) on Long Island, New York. A variety of friends, family, and Hip-Hop stars will gather to lay the Juice Crew member to rest at the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts.
Al Sharpton And Ben Crump To Represent Family Of Unarmed White Teen Killed By Police
In their fight against police brutality in this country, famed Black activists Rev. Al Sharpton and attorney Ben Crump will be taking on the case of Arkansas teen Hunter Brittain, who was fatally shot by police in June. Ben Crump has become the go-to attorney for families of Black people who have been killed by police, including Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.
Police brutality can't be seen only in Black and white
For nearly four decades, I have stood alongside grieving families, preached at funerals, led marches against police brutality and fought on behalf of people who are voiceless. It never gets any easier when you receive that phone call about another death at the hands of law enforcement or hear the pain in the voice of a parent or grandparent who now has to bury a child or loved one because of police misconduct.
Democrats Attempt To Federally Decriminalize Marijuana
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has proposed legislation on Wednesday to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The proposed bill is called the Cannabus Administration and Opportunity Act and would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and begin regulating and taxing it.
NFL’s Richard Sherman Taken Down By K9 And Arrested
According to TMZ, Richard Sherman was arrested during the morning hours in Seattle on charges of burglary domestic violence after he reportedly tried to get into a family member’s home. Details are now unfolding as we hear that Sherman strongly resisted, leading the officers to deploy a K9 dog to aid is his arrest.
Al Sharpton And Ben Crump Taking Case Of A White Teen Killed By Police
Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and the high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump have taken on the case to represent a white teenager who was killed during a traffic stop. The pair have deemed the police shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain “one of the most significant” cases in the fight to push Congress for landmark police reform legislation.
Rev. Al Sharpton Joins Demonstrators, Community Leaders At Hearing For Korryn Gaines Case
Reverend Al Sharpton is joining labor unions and community leaders to demonstrate Wednesday at a scheduled hearing in the case of Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old woman who was fatally shot by a Baltimore County Officer. 18 hours ago Latest Videos House Votes To Launch New Probe Of Jan. 6 InsurrectionSplit along party lines, the House launched a new investigation of the Jan.
A year after his murder: Rev. Al Sharpton and George Floyd’s brother assess the work ahead
Skip to content xml:space="preserve"> xml:space="preserve"> Learn more about subscriptions By Al Sharpton and Terrence Floyd New York Daily News | May 25, 2021 at 5:00 AM It’s been one year since the world watched the traumatizing video of George Floyd literally begging for his life, saying “I can’t breathe” over and over again as former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for what we now know was more than nine minutes.
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