Rev. Al Sharpton's Weekly Blog
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New Mexico
—Feb 09 2011On April 4, 1968, the world lost a pinnacle in the fight for humanity when our preeminent civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was viciously murdered. Although we are all familiar with his immeasurable struggle for equality and justice, many do not realize that an essential platform for Dr. King’s advocacy was a […]
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Dr. King’s Teachings Arise in the Middle East
—Feb 01 2011The world as we know it has changed yet again. Over the course of the last few week’s we have witnessed massive organizing and protesting in the streets of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan and across the Middle East/Africa. As we watch the populous peacefully convene to collectively voice their discontent with government and other factions, it […]
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Non-Violence Must Prevail
—Jan 11 2011Today, we are mourning. As a collective nation, we are suffering the senseless loss of life in Arizona, the vitriol in our public discourse that may have contributed to this heinous act and our inability to stop it before it ripped a deep hole into the very fabric of our democracy. While most of us […]
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Health Care Reform Must Remain
—Jan 06 2011It’s the top of the year and this week the newly elected Republican-led Congress takes the helm in the nation’s capital. After two years of consistently filibustering, stalling and flat out obstructing much of the President’s legislation aimed at progressing this nation forward, many of these Republican leaders are poised to do it all over […]