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Al Sharpton
New York City, New York, USA
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for Pre…
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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
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2024
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
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2024
Atrocity Inc.
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2024
James Brown: Say It Loud
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2023
South to Black Power
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- 2023
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2023
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
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2022
Loudmouth
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2022
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
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2022
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
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2022
Rudy! A Documusical
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2022
JANET JACKSON.
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2021
The First Wave
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2021
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
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2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
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2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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2021
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
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2021
Woman in Motion
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2020
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
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- 2020
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2020
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
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2020
The Joy Reid Show
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2020
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
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2020
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
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2019
The Black Godfather
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2018
Basketball: A Love Story
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2018
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
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2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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2018
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
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2018
Satan & Adam
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2018
I Am MLK Jr.
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2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
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2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
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2018
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
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2017
Maynard
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2017
Get Me Roger Stone
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2017
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
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2016
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2016
A Tale of James Brown
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