Al Sharpton

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Born: October 3, 1954
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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)

Works

68 films

Mr. Deeds

20025.9

Malcolm X

19927.6

Madea Goes to Jail

20096.5

Cold Feet

19993.7

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

20217.6

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

20086.6

Good Hair

20096.5

Bamboozled

20006.3

James Brown: Soul Survivor

20037.7

Maynard

20175.2

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

20136.1

United We Stand: The Ali Summit

2018

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

20217.3

On the Shoulders of Giants

20116.3

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

2024

I Am MLK Jr.

20188.8

The Black List: Volume One

20086.5

The Black Godfather

20196.6

Satan & Adam

20187.3

Pursuit of Equality

20053.0

Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

2018

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

20226.6

Get Me Roger Stone

20177.0

Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort

2020

Race

20106.8

The Central Park Five

20127.0

Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

20187.2

Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

20146.9

Let's Talk

200010.0

Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid

20246.2

Street Fight

20056.9

Woman in Motion

20216.8

Looking for Lenny

20115.4

Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL

2022

The Last Party

19935.2

The First Wave

20216.6

Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage

2021

One Night in Vegas

20106.3

The Subtext of a Yale Education

1999

The After Party: The Last Party 3

2011

Run For Cover

19954.4

A Tale of James Brown

2016

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary

2008

American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

2020

James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message

20148.0

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

20106.5

Seven Days in Bensonhurst

1990

Prince: the Last Year of a Legend

2018

Celsius 41.11

20045.5

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

20206.4

Atrocity Inc.

202410.0

Koch

20134.9

Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored

200910.0

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

2018

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

Rudy! A Documusical

2022

Loudmouth

20226.0

Abraham Obama

2009

Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story

2006

When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story

2023

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

2009

The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

20056.5

91 Bullets in a Minute

2014

Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story

2011

South to Black Power

20233.5

The Jena 6

2007

If I Die Tonight

20091.0

Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice

2015