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State Republicans mocked New York City Mayor Bill de Blasios cozy relationship with Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday by issuing a parody poster of the pair as Fifty Shades of Grey characters.

In the poster titled Fifty Shades of Bill, the mayors face is superimposed over an image of the raunchy films female protagonist. His head rests dramatically on Mr. Sharptons shoulder.

Tied up by his habitual tardiness. Dominated by the duties of his office. Handcuffed by his poor management of the NYPD, reads the poster by the New York Republican State Committee.

The parallels between the heroine of Americas hottest movie and New Yorks mayor are striking: both have completely ceded control over their situation to outside forces, and the results are difficult to watch, said David Laska, the state GOPs spokesman, The New York Observer reported.

On the committees website, the group calls the film the movie phenomenon thats sweeping the country and said New York Citys mayor wanted to get in on the fun.

Kirsten John Foy, a director with Mr. Sharptons National Action Network, called the parody junk.

The New York State Republican Party owes Rev. Al Sharpton and communities of color, particularly the African-American community, the LGBTQ community and the mayor an apology, and they need to immediately sever ties with whoever is responsible for this junk, Mr. Foy told The Observer.

To depict the mayor as a woman, as a female lover of Rev. Sharpton, is disrespectful to people who have put their lives on the line to advance the causes of civil rights and gender equality, he added.

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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

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*(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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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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