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The Rev. Al Sharpton, after sitting down with reeling Sony Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal, said the racial makeup of 21st century Hollywood lags decades behind the times.

An apologetic Pascal met for 90 minutes with Sharpton and National Urban League President Marc Morial to discuss her recently unearthed racially insensitive emails exposed and leaked by hackers.

Sharpton said the two sides hoped to work together on a plan to bring more minority representation to the movie business.

Pascal arrived in Manhattan one day after scratching the Dec. 25 release of "The Interview, the controversial Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy.

Sharpton said Hollywood had a history as an exclusionary, almost all-white hierarchy ... an environment that still resembles 1950s America.

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He cited the hacked emails in which Pascal and producer Scott Rudin made inappropriate cracks about President Obama's movie tastes suggesting the chief executive preferred movies about slavery or starring black actors.

Pascal, who did not appear after the meeting at a Manhattan hotel, released a formal apology last week for her remarks.

The jury is still out on where we go with Amy, Sharpton said. We clearly are willing to deal with an immediate formula to see where we deal with breaking down the walls of inflexible, and so far immovable, racial exclusion in Hollywood.

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Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, is slated to visit North Charleston Sunday afternoon to celebrate Charity Missionary Baptist Church's 100th anniversary.

The service is scheduled to begin 5 p.m. at the church, 1544 East Montague Ave., according to spokeswoman Trudy Grant. Sharpton will serve as the service's guest speaker, she said.

The church's pastor, Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III, joined the National Action Network's senior staff in June as vice president of religious affairs and external relations. The civil-rights organization aims to reverse gun violence.

Sunday's service is free and open to the public.

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Hollywood has just joined forces with Al Sharpton and his National Action Network after a meeting with Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chairman Amy Pascal.

Ms. Pascal met with the activist and MSNBC host on Thursday as a result of leaked emails tied to the Sony hacking. Those private messages revealed Ms. Pascal making numerous racial jokes about the kind of movies President Obama prefers to watch.

We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood, Mr. Sharpton said Thursday, The New York Post reported.

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The agreement also includes the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Black Womens Round Table, the newspaper said. The organizations would be addressing what Mr. Sharpton called an inflexible and immovable racial exclusion in Hollywood.

When asked about the fate of Ms. Pascal, the MSNBC host replied that the jury is still out, The Post reported.

Ms. Pascal has not commented publicly on her meeting with Mr. Sharpton.

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