Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization....
The 2004 presidential campaign of Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist from New York City, began with his expressed interest in May 2001. In August of that year, Sharpton announced the formation of an exploratory committee and began to campaign for...
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton is an American political news program broadcast on MS NOW, hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton. It began on August 29, 2011, on MSNBC's weekday 6 PM slot.
Albert Joseph Brown III (born June 4, 1968), known professionally as Al B. Sure!, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, radio host and former record executive. He was born in Boston and raised in Mount Vernon, New York. During the late...
Tawana Vicenia Brawley (born December 15, 1971) is an African American woman from New York who gained notoriety in November 1987 at age 15 when it was alleged she falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her over a four-day period....
On July 4, 2026, 18-year-old Nolan Wells went missing after attending an Independence Day gathering on Horn Island, a barrier island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast, with a group of friends. His body was discovered on the shoreline of the island two...
The National Action Network (NAN) is an American not-for-profit, civil-rights organization founded by Al Sharpton in New York City in early 1991. In a 2016 profile, Vanity Fair called Sharpton "arguably the country's most influential civil rights...
Shaka Sankofa (born Gary Lee Graham; September 5, 1963 – June 22, 2000) was a Texas death-row inmate who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 for the murder of 53-year-old Bobby Grant Lambert during a deadly 1981 crime spree in Houston, Texas,...
Keepin' It Real with Al Sharpton is a daily national talk radio program by New York City area civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton. While his show is based at New York City's WWRL, Keepin It Real with Al Sharpton has also been broadcast on Sirius...
On July 19, 2018, Markeis McGlockton, 28, was fatally shot by Michael Drejka in a parking lot outside a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida. After McGlockton entered the store, Drejka approached McGlockton's car to confront the driver,...
