Rev. Al Sharpton's Weekly Blog
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Double-Dip Recession?
—Jun 08 2010A few months back, Marc Morial of the Urban League, Benjamin Jealous of the NAACP and I met with President Obama in the White House on a day that could best be described as troublesome and unpredictable. It was a precarious afternoon as we battled our way through a blizzard that literally blanketed DC and […]
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Time to Put Down the Weapons
—May 24 2010People often ask me to deliver words of comfort and strength during some of their most challenging moments in life. Throughout the decades, I have stood side by side with family members of those that have been wrongfully killed in acts of violence – whether those acts were committed by police or from within the […]
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Rev on Anti-Incumbent Sentiment
—May 18 2010It seems as if every time we turn on our television sets and tune in to the day’s news, we are almost immediately inundated with numbers and percentages from various polls. Many often utilize these polls for their own political advantage, while others are accused of steering the public’s views with the use of polling […]
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Lena Horne, The Activist
—May 11 2010When we reflect on the civil rights struggle within this nation, we often focus – and rightfully so – on the works of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In school, students learn of the boycotts and sit-ins that transformed the landscape of everyday American life. And those of us that lived it, remember […]
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Next Stop — Phoenix, Arizona
—May 04 2010If you click on the official website of Phoenix, Arizona, the main page proudly boasts the following: ‘Welcome to the City of Phoenix: Government At Your Service’. After passing the most draconian immigration bill in U.S. history, Phoenix’s government is not only serving its residents with legal racial profiling, harassment and an environment of hate-mongering, […]
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Arizona Injustice
—Apr 28 2010When we study history, we are subject to a range of concepts that showcase the utter best and worst of humanity. Forced to absorb all the horrid details of war, racism, abuse, cruelty and complete disregard for civil liberties, we tell ourselves that we are remembering every unjust detail so that we will never reproduce […]
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Dr. Dorothy Height: The Passing of a Legend
—Apr 20 2010We are all afforded one lifetime. Born into varying circumstances and faced with differing degrees of challenges and opportunities, we all ultimately define the course of our own lives. Some make it a point to encourage and assist others in their own struggles, while others only focus on their own personal advancement. There are those […]
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Rev. Sharpton’s Conference for Our Future Existence
—Apr 01 2010History will be made. For the first time on live television, principal African American leaders from the academic, religious, social and political sectors will pledge a 12-month plan of action to combat the plethora of challenges presently facing our community. This unprecedented ‘Measuring the Movement’ roundtable, part of our larger National Action Network’s Annual Convention […]
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Change Has Come
—Mar 23 2010It was the second annual convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1965. And during this conference in Chicago, our great civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a speech that till this day resonates with those who see disparity in our health care system. It was on March […]