
Al Sharpton
Born October 3, 1954 · 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 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)
Movies

Mr. Deeds

Malcolm X

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Madea Goes to Jail

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

Bamboozled

Good Hair

Get Me Roger Stone

91 Bullets in a Minute

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM

Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored

The Black List: Volume One

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

On the Shoulders of Giants

One Night in Vegas

The Black Godfather

Satan & Adam

James Brown: Soul Survivor

Looking for Lenny

The Central Park Five

Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?

James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message

I Am MLK Jr.

Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

The Last Party

A Tale of James Brown

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

United We Stand: The Ali Summit

Atrocity Inc.

The After Party: The Last Party 3

South to Black Power

Maynard

American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
TV Shows

Raw

Saturday Night Live

The Colbert Report

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Real Time with Bill Maher

Sherri

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Boston Legal

Meet the Press

Anderson Cooper 360°

Empire

Girlfriends

Rescue Me

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

The Joy Reid Show

New York Undercover

Star

Steve Harvey

Fox News Sunday

My Wife and Kids

Basketball: A Love Story

The Chris Rock Show

The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart

America: The Story of Us

Joy Behar: Say Anything!

JANET JACKSON.

Tanner on Tanner

By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Time: The Kalief Browder Story

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

MS NOW Reports

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

James Brown: Say It Loud

PoliticsNation
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Woman in Motion

The Subtext of a Yale Education

Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

Celsius 41.11

When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story

"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)

Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

The First Wave

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez

Run For Cover

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

Street Fight

Koch

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

Pursuit of Equality

Loudmouth

Race

Abraham Obama

Rudy! A Documusical

Let's Talk

Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice




