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Al Sharpton stories: 46 news summaries

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Fox: Jackson Used N-Word
in Off-Air Obama Comments

Jesse apologizes, again, to frontrunner

Jul 17, 08 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Red-faced civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has again had to apologize to the nation's first black presidential candidate, this time over his use of a racial slur in off-air comments during the taping of a FOX show, reports AP. Fox News confirmed that Jackson said Obama is "talking down... More »

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Barack Obama • Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • gaffe • racial slurs

Groom-Slaying Cops Face Disciplinary Hearings

Sharpton upset they haven't been fired

May 21, 08 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York cops who were acquitted last month after firing more than 50 bullets at an unarmed man on his wedding day will face police department disciplinary action, Reuters reports. Seven officers are on the hot seat, including the three who were cleared of criminal charges last month, and... More »

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NYPD • New York City • Al Sharpton • police brutality • racial tension • Sean Bell

 Feds Probe Al for
 $1.5M in Back Taxes 

Sharpton dismissed move as a 'try to intimidate us'

May 9, 08 8:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Washington is investigating Al Sharpton and his companies for nearly $1.5 million in back taxes and penalties, the AP reports. Sharpton, who has been negotiating the size of his federal debt, brushed off the government's latest move today. “Whatever retaliation they do on me, we never stop,"... More »

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US attorney • presidential campaign • Al Sharpton • federal investigation • federal income tax • tax records • National Action Network • Election 2004

 Cop Stomp Video
 'Worse Than
 Rodney King' 

Philly officers ordered off streets amid furor

May 9, 08 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities have ordered 13 Philadelphia police officers involved in the videotaped beating of three black suspects off the streets, AP reports. The video shows the suspects being kicked, punched, and hit with nightsticks while appearing to offer no resistance. Rev. Al Sharpton compared the incident with the videotaped beating of... More »

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Al Sharpton • Philadelphia • police department • Charles Ramsey • videotaped beating • Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski • Internal Affairs • assault weapons

NYPD Arrests Sharpton,
Bell's Fiancée at Protests

Hundreds march against acquittal of officers in shooting

May 7, 08 6:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York City police arrested the Rev. Al Sharpton and the fiancée and mother of Sean Bell today during protests over the April 25 acquittal of three officers who shot Bell to death in a 50-bullet barrage. Hundreds blocked traffic at the Brooklyn Bridge and other city hot spots,... More »

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NYPD • New York City • Al Sharpton • civil rights • police brutality • racial tension • Sean Bell

Fiancée: 'They Killed Sean All Over Again'

Bell's sweetheart says justice system failed after NYPD shooting

Apr 26, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sean Bell’s fiancé spoke out today, condemning the court for acquitting the men who shot her husband. “The justice system let me down,” Nicole Paultre Bell said. “April 25, 2008: They killed Sean all over again.” In her first public comments since yesterday’s verdict,... More »

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Al Sharpton • race relations • police brutality • Sean Bell • Nicole Paultre Bell

After Bell Shooting, NYPD Awaits Its Own Verdict

Case 'revealed significant deficiencies' in undercover operations: critic

Apr 26, 08 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New York judge yesterday cleared the detectives who fatally shot Sean Bell, but the NYPD is awaiting its own verdict, after the case provoked charges of shoddy undercover police work. The shooting “revealed significant deficiencies in supervision, tactical planning, communications and management accountability,” said the Queens district... More »

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NYPD • Al Sharpton • police • New York • trial • civil rights • police brutality • verdict • Sean Bell

 Sharpton: Bell Verdict 
 'Abortion of Justice' 

Feds will look into civil-rights charges against NYPD officers

Apr 25, 08 6:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rev. Al Sharpton blasted today's acquittal of three NYPD officers who killed an unarmed man in a 50-slug fusillade in 2006, CNN reports. "Justice didn't miscarry," Sharpton said. "This was an abortion of justice. Justice was aborted." Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged citizens to respect the “... More »

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Al Sharpton • police • Michael Bloomberg • civil rights • police brutality • criminal justice • undercover • New York City Police Department • Sean Bell • Marc Cooper

Greenies Find God Might Be the Answer

Eco lobby partners
with the pulpit to get through to Congress

Apr 15, 08 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - How much carbon would Jesus use? Not much, say the religious communities now teaming with environmentalists to lobby Capitol Hill. As a carbon-capping bill approaches the Senate, eco-advocates hope that church partnerships will re-frame the debate, and religious leaders rail against the desecration of divine creation and the suffering of... More »

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Congress • Al Sharpton • Pat Robertson • environmentalism • religion • Vatican • carbon emissions

 Jackson Recalls MLK,
 Targets Urban Youth 

New initiative launched at site of King's final speech

Apr 4, 08 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Jackson was outside the Lorraine Motel when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, 40 years ago today, and the sound of the gunshot still echoes in his memory. Jackson talks with the Chicago Sun-Times about that day, and how race relations have "detoxified"  in the ensuing years.... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • race relations • assassination • Martin Luther King Jr. • civil rights movement


 Gore Launches
 $300M Climate
 Campaign 

Celebrity 'odd couples' come together to raise global warming awareness

Mar 31, 08 6:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al Gore is putting his money where his Inconvenient Truth is and pairing celebrity odd couples to push his global warming message in a $300-million ad campaign that launches Wednesday, reports CBS. "Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, two people who don't agree on very much at all," Gore... More »

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climate change • Nancy Pelosi • Newt Gingrich • Al Gore • global warming • Al Sharpton • Pat Robertson • An Inconvenient Truth • advertising campaign

Clintons Try Easing Racial Flap

Bill goes on Sharpton's show, explains 'fairy tale' remark

Jan 12, 08 5:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Bill Clinton was in damage control mode yesterday, going on Al Sharpton’s radio show to clear the air over remarks that some have called racially insensitive. Clinton offended by calling Obama’s campaign a “fairy tale,” but Bill says he was referring to Obama’s statements on... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Al Sharpton • Bill Clinton • race relations • Election 2008

TV Anchor Suspended After 'Lynch Tiger' Quip

Comment sparks uproar, call for firing

Jan 10, 08 6:29 AM CST
(Newser) - A golf commentator's quip that the only way young challengers could defeat super pro Tiger Woods would be to "lynch him" has earned her a two-week suspension and sparked a furor. The Golf Channel's lead anchor Kelly Tilghman made the comments in response to an on-air analyst's jokey suggestion... More »

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golf • Tiger Woods • Al Sharpton • racism • lynching • Kelly Tilghman • Golf Channel • news anchor

Sharpton Insists He Still Has
a Role to Play

Civil rights leader not threatened by new wave of black politicians

Dec 26, 07 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Is there a place for Al Sharpton in a Barack Obama world? The first black politician with a serious shot at the Oval Office hardly mentions race, whereas Sharpton is, as one historian puts it, “kind of a racial ambulance chaser.” But Sharpton isn’t worried. “They... More »

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Barack Obama • Don Imus • Al Sharpton • race relations • civil rights • Jena Six • Election 2008

On Tape, Sharpton Cuts
Deal for Campaign Cash

FBI video shows then-candidate agreeing to grease business wheels for donor

Dec 15, 07 5:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Someone should have told Al Sharpton he was on candid camera. When the then-presidential candidate agreed to land a multimillion-dollar contract for fundraiser Ronald White in 2003, the FBI was filming the whole thing, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Now Sharpton is under investigation for possible tax fraud and campaign... More »

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FBI • Al Sharpton • Campaign Finance Reform • campaign fundraising

Justice Dept. March Targets Hate Crimes

Thousands rally in DC for more aggressive prosecution

Nov 16, 07 3:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Thousands of marchers converged near the Justice Department in Washington, DC, today, to protest what they say is a lax attitude toward prosecuting hate crimes. The marchers, led by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, cited the Jena 6 controversy in Louisiana and a subsequent spate of incidents involving... More »

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Department of Justice • Al Sharpton • Washington DC • hate crime • protests • civil rights • Jena Six

Freed Wilson Set on College

Determined to "succeed in life" after two years behind bars for teen sex conviction

Oct 27, 07 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - "I've got a new life," Genarlow Wilson said yesterday as he left prison after two years behind bars for a teen sex conviction. "You will not be disappointed," he vowed to his supporters. "I plan on succeeding in life." Wilson was released after the... More »

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Atlanta • Al Sharpton • Georgia • Genarlow Wilson • racism • teenager

DA Ends Bid to Try 'Jena 6' Teen as Adult

Move could hasten release of key player in Louisiana race case

Sep 27, 07 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prosecutor has given up attempts to have one of the Louisiana teenagers at the center of a civil-rights furor tried as an adult, Reuters reports. Mychal Bell, 17, was convicted in June of battery in the beating of a white classmate, but an appeals court overturned the verdict on... More »

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Al Sharpton • civil rights • racial inequality • Jena Six • Mychal Bell

Jena 6 Teen Denied Release

Mychal Bell will stay
in jail while his
appeal is reviewed

Sep 22, 07 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mychal Bell, the black Louisiana teenager in jail since December for the battery of a white classmate, was not released on bail yesterday, as has supporters had hoped. The day after a demonstration that brought 10,000 civil rights activists to the tiny town to protest the treatment of the... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • Jena Six • Mychal Bell

Thousands March for 'Jena 6'

Protesters flood town to blast treatment of black students

Sep 21, 07 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - As many as 20,000 demonstrators flooded the streets of the tiny Louisiana town of Jena yesterday to protest the treatment of the "Jena 6"— the black high school students charged with felonies after the beating last year of a white student. An appeals court at midday ordered... More »

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Jesse Jackson • Al Sharpton • Jena 6

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