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Another day, another Al Sharpton visit to the White House.

Sharpton met with President Obama, along with a group of some 20 other civil rights and faith leaders, Thursday for what was described as an update on administration priorities.

He was joined by the heads of the NAACP, the National Urban League and other groups.

The meeting was also an opportunity to have a dialogue with the leaders about the issues facing their communities, including criminal justice, education, health care and economic development, according to the White House.

Sharpton was last in the White House in December, when he sat across the table from Obama during televised remarks that focused on police-community relations.

Later Thursday, about 300 civil rights leaders, along with lawmakers including Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, attended a reception at the White House.

The events were geared toward Black History Month, as well as the third anniversary of Trayvon Martins death and the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march.

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EAST LANSING -- A man not unfamiliar with criticism, Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday called on a crowd at Michigan State University's Wharton Center to not back down from activism in the 21st century.

Sharpton, the third and final speaker in the university's Dr. William Anderson From Freedom to Slavery: An American Odyssey lecture series, is used to being criticized for being at the forefront of many sensitive conversations in the country.

On Thursday, he said many are looking to tear down activists while lauding those who have come before -- as many have done with the release of the movie Selma -- because they're afraid of doing the hard work.

"We love to talk about what other generations did. The tension comes when the present generation talks about what we must do," Sharpton said.

He added, "We will find any reason to besmirch or smear a movement, because we really want to find a reason not to do what others did so well before us."

Sharpton -- who received $5,000 for speaking at the university, according to contract documents obtained by The State News -- followed speeches by Harry Belafonte and Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who both spoke earlier this month. Belafonte's lecture cost the university $25,000, according to The State News report, and Lewis spoke for free.

Speaking for about 45 minutes Thursday, Sharpton hit on many of the same themes that Belafonte and Lewis touched. He especially emphasized how far African Americans have come in the fight for equality while giving examples on how far the community has to go.

He told a story about finding out that former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond's ancestors owned his ancestors as slaves before the Civil War, and talked about how his mother had to endure segregation. Many people who tell the black community not to focus on race don't understand how close it is to home for African Americans, he said.

"It's easy for people to talk about getting over something they never had to get over," he said. "... They call us race baiters. No, we (sic) talking about our family tree."

Sharpton also talked about the protests in Ferguson, MO, and Staten Island in New York City in the summer of 2014. Sharpton was involved in the organization of protests in both cities at the request of the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, he said.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton may soon be booted from his weeknight television host role on Politics Nation and relegated to the pile of less-watched weekend fare, one source within MSNBCs ranks said, citing the need for the cable provider to bolster slagging audience numbers.

Company President Phil Griffin said that the outlets Republican-bashing days are pretty much over and that as part of the image overhaul, its now being surmised that Mr. Sharptons show may move from its prime 6 p.m. Monday-through-Friday slot, the Daily Mail reported.

Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, one MSNBC source told the Daily Beast. But it doesnt work anymore. The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.

Mr. Sharptons show, which has run for more than three years, attracts a 35 percent black audience, the Daily Mail reported.

Everybody in the [company] food chain, from top to bottom, understands that the [Keith] Olbermann era is over, the source said, the Daily Mail reported.

Mr. Olbermann, an outspoken liberal news commentator, left MSNBC in 2011 to take a job with ESPN. The talk of Mr. Sharpton comes as the company canceled the afternoon shows of both Ronan Farrow and Joy-Ann Reid due to poor ratings.

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Garner Family Calls Front Page Story 'Deeply Misleading' February 24, 2015 11:12 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) The Rev. Al Sharpton is firing back at a report questioning his motives for his involvement in the Eric Garner case.

The New York Post, citing a video released byconservative activist James OKeefe of the investigative internet site Project Veritas, claims that Eric Garners daughter was secretly recorded saying Sharpton is only interested in money.

In the video, which the Post says was secretly recordedby a reporter during a protest at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island last month, a woman is heard asking Erica Garner if she thinks Sharpton is kind of like a crook in a sense.

She replies, Hes about this, and rubs her fingers together.

Hes about money with you? the woman asks.

Yeah, Garners daughter responds.

The headline of the article reads, Garners daughter on Sharpton: Hes all about the money.' But Sharpton says the story contradicts its own headline.

Later on in the article, the Post says Garners daughter denied that she had accused Sharpton of being a money-grubber in an interview with the paper Monday night.

No, I didnt say that I think Al Sharpton is all about the money, she told the Post.

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