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Rev. Al Sharpton to Deliver Key Sermon in Selma on Sunday Sermon commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches and signing of the voting rights act of 1965

Mar 6, 15 by EURweb editor/BJ 8 Comments

*(New York, NY) On Sunday, March 8 at 11 a.m., Rev. Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network, will deliver a key sermon at Brown Chapel A.M.E. in Selma, Alabama, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders were based during the 1965 Voting Rights campaign and organized historic marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

WHO: Rev. Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network

WHAT: Key sermon to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

WHERE: Brown Chapel A.M.E., 410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703

WHEN: March 8, 11 a.m.

Additionally, on Friday, March 6, Rev. Sharpton will host his MSNBC show Politics Nation live from Selma as well as his nationally syndicated radio show. On Saturday, March 7, he will join other civil rights leaders as they listen to President Obama and Bushs speeches at the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the marches from Selma to Montgomery and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

On Saturday evening at 5 p.m., Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a civil rights forum at the Selma Convention Center, and at 7 p.m., he will speak at an HIV/AIDS Town Hall meeting at Selma University. On Sunday, before his sermon at Brown A.M.E., Rev. Sharpton will participate in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast. Following his sermon, he will participate in the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and post-march rally at 4 p.m.

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Rev. Al Sharpton to Deliver Key Sermon in Selma on Sunday

Society By Lisa Fogarty, Tue, February 24, 2015

The Reverend Al Sharpton was one of the first leaders to speak out against police brutality after Staten Island man Eric Garner died in July after a cop put him in a chokehold.

But a secretly recorded conversation between Garner's daughter and an activist reveals Sharpton may not be a close family friend. Erica Snipes reportedly revealed to an investigator from activist James O'Keefe's group, Project Veritas, that Sharpton was more interested in money than in helping others, reports the New York Post.

Posing as a Garner supporter, the investigator reportedly interviewed Snipes using a hidden camera during a protest last month in Staten Island. When asked if she thought the Baptist minister was a "crook," Snipes can be seen rubbing her fingers together and saying, "He's about this."

The investigator attempted to clarify by asking if he is "about money," to which Garner's oldest daughter replied, "Yeah."

Snipes says she tried to distribute fliers about her father and that she was stopped by the Staten Island director of Sharpton's National Action Network, Cynthia Davis, who told her she should have included the organization's logo on the materials.

"Instead of me, he wants his face in front," Snipes reportedly said of Sharpton.

When Snipes was interviewed by the New York Post,she reportedly denied saying Sharpton was all about money, but continued to criticize Davis and said she tried to keep her from attending a protest against mass incarceration.

Sharpton slammed Project Veritas and said its members are using Snipes and other victims to satisfy their own agenda.

"They're splicing and dicing stuff together," Sharpton reportedly said. "It was a distortion. Erica is a sincere victim. She was not trying to infer anything with me."

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As about 600 people assembled to hear a speech by the Rev. Al Sharpton at Michigan State Universitys Wharton Center Feb. 26, several attendees noted, with a touch of regret, that they were missing the MSU- Minnesota basketball game.

Sharpton gave them reason to be happy with their choice, and not just because the Spartans lost that night. No Big 10 squad mixes defense with offense as deftly as Sharpton does all by himself.

Sharpton was the third in a triumvirate of civil rights speakers to visit MSU this month. U.S. Rep. John Lewis spoke Feb. 6 and actor-singer-activist Harry Belafonte spoke Feb. 12.

In a 45-minute talk, the veteran civil rights activist tossed into the air several familiar objections that have dogged him for years, flipping them into pointed rhetorical thrusts.

He wearily ticked off familiar charges that he and other activists rile up racial tensions and "hate America."

"The challenge of the 21st century is that we are still fighting racial disparities," he said, citing sharp inequalities in employment rates, education, health care and the criminal justice system.

"Those that raise it are not the ones that hate the country; theyre the ones that love the country," he said. "Those that want to leave the country the way it is I question whether they love the country."

The only way to honor the civil rights landmarks of previous generations, he said, is to "complete the journey."

"The fight today is on criminal justice, preserving voting and democratizing health care," he said. "The challenge is not just to recount and celebrate black history but to continue to make it."

The dense weave of offense and defense reached maximum tightness when Sharpton tried to explain why dead civil rights leaders like King are lionized, while living ones including, by implication, himself are not.

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Sharpton & Young Activists Not on Same Page: They Are Pimping You

Feb 9, 15 by Qwest7 Leave a comment

*They may crusade for the same cause, but things look to be anything but united concerning young activists and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

Speaking recently at a gathering in the Harlem office of his National Action Network (NAN), the MSNBC PoliticsNation host expressed his feelings towards the hate hes received from young protesters who have taken a stand against police brutality around the nation in response to the grand jurys decisions to not indict those responsible for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

In his eyes, those criticizing him and other veteran activists areattempting to split the young activists from the older activists

They are pimping you, Sharpton said in his speech as he cited a police brutality march he led in Missouri in which he agreed to let young activists speak after demanding the time to do so.

Ive been meeting with them and talking with them since. And they were told, Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys. Anytime you have movements, whether its in Ferguson, whether its in New York, whether its in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote youre supposed to be out there for, youre being tricked and youre trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch in our community.

How you going to be more mad at folk that are marching for the same cause then you are against the folks yall are marching against? Dont you see a trick in there? Sharpton continued.

Although he alluded to a responsible party for all the drama, CapitalNewYork.com noted that Sharpton didnt name names during his speech. As he continued speaking, Sharpton emphasized the effect the disunity is having to the overall cause.

And why they got yall arguing about old or young in Ferguson, they running an election and yall aint got a candidate in the race. Cause youre busy arguing with your mommy and daddy when they re-electing a mayor, and re-electing a prosecutor. They got you arguing about who going to lead a marchthe old or the youngwhen they cutting up the city budget. You cant be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You cant be that stupid., he said.

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Society By Karen Eisenberg, Mon, February 23, 2015

The National Association of African-American Owned Media filed a lawsuit in California on Friday against Comcast and Time Warner Cable seeking about $20 billion in damages. The Association is also suing MSNBC host Al Sharpton for allegedly allowing discrimination.

The complaint claims that Comcast and Time Warner Cable "collectively spend approximately $25 billion annually for the licensing of pay-television channels and advertising of their products and services, yet 100% African Americanowned media receives less than $3 million per year, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

In 2010, when Comcast acquired NBCUniversal, Comcast entered into memoranda of understanding with the NAACP, the National Urban League and the National Action Network, but the lawsuit says the voluntary diversity agreements are "a sham, undertaken to whitewash Comcasts discriminatory business practices."

The National Association of African-American Owned Media claims that the only fully owned black-channel picked up by Comcast is the Africa Channel and all other black channels are said to be window dressing, with black celebrities as "fronts" when they are "white-owned businesses" that are run by friends or family of Comcast executives.

The Association alleges that Comcast gave $3.8 million to Sharpton and his National Action Network so that Sharpton would endorse the NBCU deal and divert attention away from discrimination.

The lawsuit asserts that Comcast allowed Sharpton to maintain his hosting position [on the Comcast co-owned MSNBC] for more than three years in exchange for Sharptons continued public support for Comcast on issues of diversity despite the notoriously low ratings that Sharptons show generates,as reported by the New York Post.

In response to the lawsuit, Sharpton told the New York Post: "I would welcome it. We could then be deposed on what this gentleman asked us to do to help him get programming, which we frankly considered below our standard and unethical."

Sources: Hollywood Reporter,New York Post/Photo: Wikimedia

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