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Al Sharpton
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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 …
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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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Al Sharpton's Filmography
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Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
as Self
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
as Self
Atrocity Inc.
as Self - Civil Rights Activist
South to Black Power
as Self
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
as Self
Loudmouth
as Self
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
as Self (archive footage)
Rudy! A Documusical
as Self
The First Wave
as Self (archive footage)
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
as Self - Minister & Activist
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
as Self
Woman in Motion
as Self
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
as Self
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
as Self
No Poster
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
as Self
The Black Godfather
as Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
as Self
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
as self
Satan & Adam
as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
as Self
No Poster
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
as Self
No Poster
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
as Self - Civil rights activist
Maynard
as Self
Get Me Roger Stone
as Self (archive footage)
A Tale of James Brown
as Self
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
as Self - National Action Network
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
as Self
91 Bullets in a Minute
as Self
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
as Self
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
as Self
Koch
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Central Park Five
as Self (archive footage)
The After Party: The Last Party 3
as Self
On the Shoulders of Giants
Looking for Lenny
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
as Self
Race
as Self
One Night in Vegas
as Self
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
as Self (archive footage)
Good Hair
as Self
No Poster
If I Die Tonight
as Self
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
as Self
Madea Goes to Jail
as Self
Abraham Obama
as Self
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
as Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
as Self
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
as Self
The Black List: Volume One
as Self
The Jena 6
as Self
No Poster
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
as Self
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Pursuit of Equality
as Self
Street Fight
as Self
Celsius 41.11
as Self (archive footage)
James Brown: Soul Survivor
Mr. Deeds
as The Rhyme Master
Bamboozled
as Himself
Let's Talk
The Subtext of a Yale Education
as Self
No Poster
Cold Feet
as The Reverend
Run For Cover
as Himself
The Last Party
as Self
Malcolm X
as Speaker #2
No Poster
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
as Self