Black activist Rev. Al Sharpton has stepped up to give his opinion on the Supreme Court's shocking ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The National Action Network revealed the five winners' names for the annual Triumph Awards that recognize people for working to promote social, racial and economic justice in their communities.
The National Action Network revealed the five winners' names for the annual Triumph Awards that recognize people for working to promote social, racial and economic justice in their communities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia. Although many marchers will arrive via charter buses from surrounding communities on Aug. 28, the Rev. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton is working on a book that will address what he calls an urgent moment in American history. The longtime civil rights activist’s “Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads” is coming out Sept. 15, less than two months before the 2020 election, Hanover Square Press announced […]
A life taken at the hands of police. A grieving family. A divided nation. A stirring eulogy by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The 65-year-old civil rights activist has become a constant of the Black Lives Matter era with his presence in the pulpit after police shootings of African Americans, showing up in cities like Baltimore, […]
For a lot of people the 4th of July is a celebration of America’s freedom, but Reverend Al Sharpton says it’s different for Black people. He explains that on the 4th of July Black people look at and discuss, “what we can make America become.” While Donald Trump is looking at his tanks and giving his […]
NEW YORK (AP) — From lunch with a civil rights leader in Harlem to meetings at a historically black university in South Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is making a new, concerted effort to appeal to African American voters and put behind him criticism of his record on race. His main strategy: Talk less. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Democrats seeking the White House have issued proposals on overhauling education, agriculture, technology and immigration. But none of the candidates has made specific pitches on how he or she would transform the nation’s criminal justice system. Although the Democratic candidates have talked broadly about systemic racism — with several backing […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Standing beside the family of a 22-year-old black man who was fatally shot by police a year ago Monday, the Rev. Al Sharpton called for California to make it easier to prosecute officers who kill civilians and to require that all cases go before a grand jury. “The legacy is we’re […]
Brett Kavanaugh is Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Supreme Court Justice. His hearing is still going on and oddly enough we have only seen 10 percent of his records. But what we do know is that he’s anti criminal justice reform, things like that cause issues like the water crisis in Flint. “We do […]
Rev. Al Sharpton is having a better morning than Donald Trump. Yesterday the entire Trump administration took a tough hit when his former campaign manager was found guilty and his former attorney implicated Trump as a co-conspirator. It is no longer a question, Donald Trump has been involved in crimes. Initially Trump’s people were saying that […]
