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Rev. Al Sharptonshalf-brother wascharged with murder in a Sunday shooting death in Alabama afterparticipating in Saturdays anti-gun March For Our Lives, according to a report.

Kenneth Glasgow, 52, was arrested along with another man after Breunia Jennings, 23, was shot in the head inDothan, Ala. Authorities said Glasgow, an ex-convict,was the driver of the car linked to Jennings death. The passenger of the car Jamie Townes, 26,was also arrested and is reportedly the alleged shooter,the Dothan Eaglereported.

Dothan Police Chief Steve Parrish said that Glasgow and Townes were reportedly searching for Jennings because they thought she had stolen Townes car. When they spotted her, Townes allegedlyfired several shots into the vehicle Jennings drove, leaving her dead.

Sharpton and Glasgow have protested together in the past, joining forces to protest the 2013 murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida.Glasgow also started a ministry called The Ordinary People Society. His groupparticipated in a Saturday anti-gun march in Dothan, one day before he was charged with murder,The Washington Examiner reported.

Glasgows website shows a picture of him with 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The website claims his group, provides a continuum of unconditional acceptance and care to individuals and their families who suffer the effects of drug addiction, mass-incarceration, homelessness, poverty, unemployment, hunger and illness-without regard to race, sex, creed, color, religion or social status.

The shooting occurred late Sunday night. I do not know where he was prior to the incident. It has been reported by several local outlets that he attended a similar event on Saturday, a police spokesman said to The Washington Examiner.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton, left, is seen with Kenneth Glasgow, as they deliver holiday meals on Thanksgiving Day in 2006 in Dothan, Ala. (AP/Rick Helmke)

Al Sharpton's half brother was arrested and charged with capital murder after a 23-year-old woman was shot dead in Alabama in a dispute over a car, authorities said Monday.

The Dothan Police Department said in a news release that Kenneth Glasgow, 52, was arrested along with Jaime Townes, 26, after Breunia Jennings was found dead in a wrecked car around 10:50 p.m. on Sunday.

Jennings' death came just a day after Glasgow's homeless and community ministry, Ordinary People Society,participated in the nationwide March For Our Lives, which advocated for gun control and protested gun violence.

In a news conference on Monday, police said they believe that Townes was angry at Jennings because he believed she had stolen his car, according to The Dothan Eagle.

Kenneth Glasgow was arrested and charged with capital murder after a deadly shooting in Alabama on Sunday.(Dothan Police Department)

Instead of him notifying law enforcement, he took matters in his own hands and jumped in Mr. Glasgows vehicle to find Breunia Jennings,"Dothan Police Chief Steve Parrish told reporters.

Jennings "suffered a gunshot wound to the head," according to Parrish, who said Townes fired several rounds at the vehicle she was driving.

"I want the family of Breunia Jennings to know our thoughts and prayers go out to them during this time," he said.

Jaime Townes is believed to have opened fire on 23-year-old Breunia Jennings.(Dothan Police Department)

Authorities said several people are believed to have been in the car at the time, and additional arrests may occur.

In an appearance in court Tuesday, Glasgow repeatedly questioned the murder charge against him, The Dothan Eagle reported.

I dont know why I am facing capital murder charges, Glasgow stated. Im not responsible for what someone else does. He just asked me for a ride to take him to look for his car.

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A judge told Glasgow he needed to stop making comments until he could speak with an attorney, and that he is not eligible for bail because of the nature of the charges.

According to Alabama law, murder committed by or through the use of a deadly weapon while the victim is in a vehicle is considered a capital crime, the Eaglereported. A person believed to have aided or abetted a crime is equally liable for the underlying crime, according to the state's complicity statue, the newspaper reported.

The 52-year-old has been involved in community movements since being released from prison after a drug conviction in the 1980's, according to the Eagle.

Glasgow has referred to himself as Rev. Kenny Sharpton Glasgow on several occasions and is the half-brother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network. The two were pictured together in 2006 delivering meals to the needy on Thanksgiving in an Associated Press photo.

He is also pictured in another photo with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Kenneth Glasgow, right, is seen with former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Glasgow is set to appear again in court on April 6, when a judge will determine if there is enough evidence to send the charge to a grand jury for possible indictment, according to the Eagle.

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Rev. Al Sharpton serves as the host of PoliticsNation, which airs from 6:00-7:00 p.m. ET on msnbc.

With over 40 years of experience as a community leader, politician, minister and advocate, the Rev. Al Sharpton is one of Americas most-renownedcivilrights leaders. Sharptons highly visible career began at the tender age of four when he preached his first sermon.

A successful civil rights career soon followed, helping Sharpton hold such notable positions as the Youth Director of New Yorks Operation Breadbasket, Director of Ministers for National Rainbow Push coalition, and founder of his own broad-based progressive civil rights organization, the National Action Network (NAN), one of the leading civil rights organizations in the world. Since its inception in 1991, NAN has expanded to encompass chapters throughout the United States and maintain important regional offices in Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, GA; Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX;LasVegas, NV; and Los Angeles, CA.

Rev. Sharpton also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show that broadcasts in 40 markets, five days a week.

He resides inNewYorkand has two daughters, Dominique and Ashley.

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Mr. Sharpton is many things to many people a freedom fighter, a boogeyman, a racial opportunist, an aging man just hanging on. But he has used his entire career to tell America a story about itself that it does not want to hear: that racism exists today, and is pervasive outside of the Deep South. And he has worked ceaselessly toward two intertwined, impossible goals. First, the demand for equal rights for all. The second is about securing his legacy as the Martin Luther King of the North.

What I want it to be is I helped urbanize the King movement, Mr. Sharpton said. I was the one that could bring the King movement into the Northern, urban centers. But where Dr. Kings activism led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Mr. Sharptons efforts havent amounted to national reform.

Mr. Sharpton, 63, figured hed be retired by now. He thought hed keep his Sunday-morning MSNBC program, PoliticsNation, and his daily radio show, Keepin It Real. He said he was ready to name a successor to his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, and the marching, strategizing and agitating that came with it. All that was left to do was build a civil rights museum in Harlem. But riding off into a life of punditry isnt an option with Mr. Trump in office. Mr. Sharpton said he and his allies thought they were poised to help a President Hillary Clinton pass national police reform legislation. His mission is now different, and more modest.

Youve got to preserve what youve got done, he said. It will not matter if he revokes the Voting Rights Act, and the Civil Rights Act of Dr. King. You need to preserve the racial profiling laws, and police reform like stop and frisk, he continued. Otherwise, itll be a bygone era.

Now 133 pounds, Mr. Sharpton is less than half the man he was for much of his life. A morning salad and banana serve as his only real sustenance for the day, and in my time with him, he drank nothing but green tea not even water. His flamboyant conk is now steely gray, slicked back over his thinning crown. Hes quick to joke, but he rarely laughs. He has long since replaced his sweats with bespoke suits.

But the new Al Sharpton is the same person he always was.

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. was born in 1954 to a middle-class family who had a house in a nice neighborhood in Queens. At 4, before he even knew how to read, young Al began preaching, and often practiced at home in his mothers robe. When he was just a boy, his mother connected Al with two pastors, Bishop F.D. Washington and the Rev. Dr. Bill Jones. They called him Boy Wonder, and he toured the country preaching before he was even a teenager. In 1967, Dr. Jones introduced the young preacher to a 26-year-old civil-rights activist named Jesse Jackson. Mr. Jackson took him under his wing, and Al decided he wanted to spend his life like the men who looked after him, fighting for civil rights in the prophetic tradition of Dr. King, who was assassinated when Mr. Sharpton was 13.

In 1971, when he was 16, Mr. Sharpton founded his first civil rights organization, the National Youth Movement, with money from Bayard Rustin, the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. He met James Brown, who adopted him as his godson in 1973; for most of the next decade, Mr. Sharpton was always at the singers side. If Jesse Jackson taught Mr. Sharpton how to organize, it was James Brown who taught him how to perform.

I would watch what moves and what songs excited people, and I would take notes, Mr. Sharpton told me. Because youve got to keep peoples attention.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday slammed Republican South Carolina governor candidateCatherine Templeton for her comments on the campaign trail about her family's ties to the Confederacy.

During his weekly "Gotcha" segment on MSNBC's "Politics Nation,"Sharpton criticized Templeton for speaking fondly of the Confederacy.

He was referring to remarks she made last month at Bob Jones University, where she told a mostly student crowd that her relatives fought for the South in the Civil War because "the federal government was telling us how to live."

"I think it's important to note that my family didn't fight because we had slaves. My family fought because the federal government was telling us how to live," Templeton said.

The Greenville News reported Templeton's family owned 66 slaves.

Her campaign told the newspaper of the findings, "This campaign is about the future, not about the past."

Sharpton said those comments left Templeton with a "full carton of egg on her face."

"Past is prologue, and themorally convenient idea that resistance to government should trump the moral baseline of not defending slavery is one of the fixtures that's brought white nationalism back to the forefront. Well, that and this presidency," Sharpton said.

Templeton, a Mount Pleasant attorney and former state agency director, hasrepeatedly aligned herself with President Donald Trump. Upon learning that her family owned slaves, Templeton said she would embrace her family "warts and all."

"The warts are ugly and like racism, spread via contact with the infected. But as racists have been finding out for roughly the last 40 years, Rev. Sharpton's got a mean ointment to help with that. Try rubbing this one on your brain: I gotcha!" he said, pointing at the camera.

Mark Powell,Templeton's campaign spokesman, toldThe Post and Courier the MSNBC segment was a reflection that "liberals hate Catherine Templeton."

"We're not exactly shocked that Al Sharpton and the radicals at MSNBC are doing everything they can to distort and attack her. They're scared of her commitment to true conservative reform. And they should be,"Powell said in a statement.

Templeton is one of five GOP contenders vying for the governorship. Three Democrats are also running for the seat.

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