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Taking inspiration from the gigantic Black Lives Matter street painting near the White House in Washington D.C., community leaders and volunteers painted a street in the heart of Bed-Stuy with the same message Saturday.

Volunteers spread yellow traffic paint into letters 28 feet tall, spanning a 375-foot-long stretch of Fulton Street in Restoration Plaza.

Volunteers paint a massive Black Lives Matter message on Fulton Street in Bed Stuy. Gothamist

City Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., who represents Bed-Stuy, said his district was the natural home for the street project.

Similar to what was done in Washington DC, we saw that it helped boost the morale of not only the demonstrators, but of the ancillary community to it, Cornegy said in an interview Saturday. And we thought that since this community has been historically Black, and it's the last bastion of Black homeownership, the last bastion of Black small business, this will be the right place in New York City to begin the Black Lives Matter mural movement.

In addition to the Black Lives Matter message, the names of victims of police brutality are also memorialized in the artwork.

The project is a joint effort between the Billie Holiday Theatre at Restoration Plaza and Cornegy, who originally reached out to artist Dawud West to commission a mural for the plaza.

I suggested that I do something a little bit more statement-making as opposed to just painting something on the wall, West said, adding that the Bed-Stuy project joins the DC artwork and a similar project in Charlotte, North Carolina to show unity across the country.

Dr. Indira Etwaroo, the theaters Executive Artistic Director, added that situating the art project in Restoration Plaza itself was a deliberate message.

This is Restoration Plaza, and this is the first Community Development Corporation in the nation, founded by Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob Javits along with community activists who were rising up during the 1966 race riots (in New York), Etwaroo said. And so here we are full circle again.

Taken outside of its transportation context, the yellow paint represented urgency and action, said Nicholas Love, an artist and volunteer.

Its just so bold and in your face. The black pavement under the traffic-yellow, its like caution: be aware, Love said.

The Saturday kickoff of the project started with Spike Lee, Reverend Al Sharpton, and the state Attorney General Letitia James hoisting paint rollers together. The street art was dedicated with Cornegys Soul Sunday event with local church leaders.

State Attorney General Letitia James, Rev. Al Sharpton, Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., Billie Holiday Theatre's director Indira Etwaroo, Spike Lee, and artist Dawud West, at the kickoff of the BLM street art project. Courtesy of the Billie Holiday Theatre

I think the mood here is very celebratory, which gives us a break against the stark reality of being black in this country, Cornegy said of the project. So, it hasn't changed the mood overall but for one moment in time, we're able to celebrate the community coming out and painting -- if you notice, most of the painting is being done by community residents, which means that they have a stake in this. This is not something that's happening to them, but being done for them. And that's the difference. A lot of times what we feel is Black Americans, whether it's policy or legislation, you feel that is being done to us as opposed to being done for us. This is one of those days where the community gets to come out and actually participate in the painting.

Another aerial shot of the BLM street art in Bed-Stuy. Filip Wolak

This week, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that a street in every borough would be named after the Black Lives Matter movement. Though the initiative was supposed to commence near City Hall, West said the Bed-Stuy mural was a bonus.

Bill de Blasio wanted one of these in every borough, West said. So if he wants it in every borough -- heres one right now.

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Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an Americancivil rights activist,Baptistminister who also talk show hostand politician.His critics express him as a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations.

Sharpton is 64 years old. He was born on October 3, 1954, in New York City, New York, the U.S. Sharpton belongs to American nationality and of Cherokee ethnicity.

His fathers name is Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. and mothers name is Ada Richards. Mr. Alfred was a Brooklyn based businessman. He has a brother, Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow and two sisters: Cheryl Sharpton and Ernestine Sharpton.

Al does not respect his dad Alfred because his father left his family and had an affair with his step-daughter.

Sharpton graduated fromSamuel J. Tilden High Schoolin Brooklyn and attendeddropping out after two years in 1975 Brooklyn College.

While in school, he was involved in civil rights movements, which was prominent in several high profile protests. Similarly, it was poised to bring equality between black and white Americans.

Sharpton developed his commanding speaking behavior as a child and a churchgoer who has commanded a minister at age 10. He was best characterized as a Social/political activist and religious leader. Sharpton became the best fighter and a roaring voice in the fight opposite to racial prejudice and injustice against Americans of black origin.

This fight saw him get into different problems and even surviving an assassination attempt. He contested the election for different political offices at various times but is not popular to have been an elected officeholder. In one of his disastrous political outings, he intimated that winning political posts might not have been his ultimate goal.

Furthermore, Sharpton founded theNational Action Network, an organization designed to increase voter education, to provide services to those inpoverty, and to support small community businesses in 1981. Moreover, In 1999, Sharpton attends a protest to raise awareness about the death of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant fromGuineawho was shot to death byNYPDofficers.

He was jailed for 90 days on trespassing charges while protesting against U.S. military target practice exercises inPuerto Riconear a United States Navy bombing site in 2001.In 2002, Sharpton has involved in protests ensuing the death of West African immigrantOusmane Zongo.

He held a press conference to highlight what he said was the unequal treatment of four suspected rapists in a high-profile crime in the Dunbar Village Housing Projects inWest Palm Beach, Florida on March 11, 2008.

Shooting of Trayvon MartinbyGeorge Zimmerman, Sharpton led several protests and rallies criticizing theSanford Police Departmentover the handling of the shooting in 2012. Sharpton called for the federal government to stop maintaining theJefferson Memorialin Washington, D.C in August 2017.

Though he was a well-known Politician there is no information that he has received many awards and nominations.

Sharpton lives a comfortable and public active life. He has an estimated net worth between $500,000 dollars to $5 million. In 2014, Sharpton and his large businesses owed a combined $4.7 million dollars in taxes. However, he has well paid off more than $2 million of the debt.

There is a rumor run byAmid 2020 presidential thatBeto ORourke is meeting with controversial Democratic leader Sharpton, who is known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric. Sharpton has frequently sparkedcontroversywith his harsh language.Last November, The New York Times announced that the MSNBC host has regularly sidestepped the sort of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent, and other bills.

Sharpton is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 59 kg. He has Dark brown eye color and Gray hair color. His body measurement is (43-14-32). Sharptons shoe size is 11(US) and his dress size is not available.

Sharpton is active on social media. He has over 5,24,462 followers on Facebook, around 240k followers on Instagram, and more than 586k followers on Twitter.

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New York (AFP) - Reverend Al Sharpton, who made an impassioned plea for racial justice at a memorial service for George Floyd on Thursday, is a flamboyant but polarizing long-time black civil rights activist who once dreamed of occupying the White House.

Admirers laud the sharply dressed, 65-year-old Baptist minister and talk show host for the half-century he has spent campaigning to right wrongs against the US' African-American community.

But critics have accused Sharpton, who placed himself at the center of some of the most racially explosive issues of the 1980s in his native New York, of being a divisive racial provocateur.

Never shy of the spotlight, he has mellowed over the years and adopted a more considered persona, swapping the trademark tracksuit of his early activist days with pin-striped suits.

The big hair has also gone, and Sharpton doesn't quite cut the same imposing figure physically as he used to, but his fire still burns brightly.

"America, this is the time for dealing with accountability in the criminal justice system," he told the memorial for Floyd, who died on May 27 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

"We won't stop," added Sharpton, referring to the mass protests convulsing the United States.

"We're going to keep going until we change the whole system of justice."

Born in Brooklyn, in October 1954, Sharpton gave notice of his oratorical skills by preaching in a church service when he was just four years old.

Aged nine, he was ordained a Pentecostal minister. Martin Luther King was assassinated when he was 13 years old.

Sharpton, while still in his teens, was chosen by the Reverend Jesse Jackson as the New York youth director of a national initiative aimed at tackling poverty in black neighborhoods.

His life underwent a radical shift in 1973 when he met the soul singer James Brown backstage at a concert, and he ended up spending the next several years on the road as part of Brown's entourage.

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There, he met his future wife, Kathy Jordan, who was one of Brown's backup singers.

Sharpton's political activism came to the fore in the early 1980s, when racial tensions climbed sharply in New York City.

In 1985, he made the national news leading protests against Bernard Goetz, a white man who shot four black teenagers trying to mug him on a subway and was acquitted for acting in self-defense.

The success of the demonstrations set a pattern, as Sharpton went on to rally supporters over similar incidents, including protests over the accidental running down of a young black boy by a Hasidic rabbi's motorcade -- an event that triggered violent clashes between black and Jewish communities.

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Critics saw his tactics as divisive, opportunistic and inflammatory, pointing especially to the 1987 case of 15-year-old Tawana Brawley, a black girl who claimed to have been raped by six white men, some of whom were police officers.

Sharpton became Brawley's most vocal supporter and famously accused an assistant district attorney of involvement in the rape.

A grand jury later determined that Brawley made up the incident, and Sharpton was compelled to pay the attorney $65,000 for defamation. However, to the fury of his detractors, he is not known to have apologized.

"For some, that case defines my career and is the sole reason I should not be supported by anyone in this country," he wrote in his 2002 book, "Al On America."

"For me, it defines my career because I refused to bend or bow -- no matter the pressures. I took the word of a young girl, and if I had to do it over, I would do it again."

As his stature grew, he found himself accused of misusing funds and ran into tax trouble.

Sharpton ran for the Senate from New York in 1992 and 1994, as well as for New York City mayor in 1997. He failed in all three attempts but got enough votes to be taken seriously by his rivals.

He says a near-fatal stabbing in 1991 that occurred as he was readying to lead a protest march led him to be "less flippant, and more sober" in style.

"I couldn't shoot from the hip so much," he said.

In 2004, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination but lost every race.

While Sharpton has tempered his approach, he remains outspoken, riling President Donald Trump last year in a dispute over Baltimore, which is majority black.

Trump, who has known Sharpton for years, branded him a "con man, a troublemaker."

"I make trouble for bigots," Sharpton fired back.

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#6 of On Tyranny: Be wary of paramilitaries When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come. Timothy Snyder

Men who rape, kill, torture, and mutilate because they dont like how another person looks or behaves, what he or she believes, or for whom he or she works deserve no mercy from historians, politicians or any other Americans. Yet we all must remember that these angry chants and threats have long been a part of the larger American chorus that, if it were ever to surrender the urge to hate and kill, might also break into song. - Catherine McNicol Stock, Rural Radicals

#7 of On Tyranny: Be reflective if you must be armed If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. Timothy Snyder

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger, and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep. Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

Stalin...displayed his special form of political genius: interpreting the disastrous consequences of his own policies as a reason to punish his political opponents (real or imagined)...his reasoning now liberated itself from the burden of contact with empirical reality...security organs would find the truth they were ordered to find...In this new world, the past was no guide...No arguments could be advanced against what Stalin chose to call a fact...(He) presided over the death of millions, and greeted human catastrophe as political success. - Timothy Snyder, Stalins Famine, Sketches From a Secret War

No body, no problem. - attr. to J. Stalin No (accurate ) body count, no problem. attr. to D. Trump

You cant tell it like it is, unless, you, first, tell it like it was. - Chicago Dog

Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed. - Milton Mayer

As Planned Parenthood gears up for an all out assault on the Rights of Women with a clinic for women seeking natal and abortion assistance in southern Illinois, the Midwests bluest State, a map marks this location as geographically convenient to women who are despised, in law, by men in States to the South, Southwest and East. That map also marks the jumping off point for General U.S. Grants Army of the Tennessee that waged war from 1861-1865, against a way of thinking that had a concrete form in the Confederacy, but also, a spiritual racism and male chauvinism that affected all regions of America back then, and, unfortunately, now as well.

Violent words from President Trump, his propaganda machine in the White House, FOX news, Congressional Republicans like Jim Jordan (OH).Matt Gaetz (FL), Lindsay Graham (SC) and Mitch McConnell (KY) have defended a nihilistic, lawless leadership. A refusal by Attorney General William Barr on May 18, 2020 to break the law in pursuit of fictitious deep state, conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama may stymie his Hater-in-Chief, but will not stop hatefulness spawned by Barrs previous pandering to power. Desperate despots of demagogy incite a civil war of words that evokes the violence of slavery advocates of yesteryear, and todays would be dictators. As civilized Americans face issues laying bare very uncivilized emotions and actions, I turned, once again, to the wisdom of my KGB animal companions.

High Plains Reader: Hello dear friends! Why does rhetoric of Trump supporters in the White House, Congress, and on Trump (FOX) TV, resemble Taliban tribalism in Afghanistan? Weve spent much treasure and many lives over there, yet we, like them, have men in power here who hate women, white people in power who fear and loathe people of color, and Christians who do not really love their neighbor, if their neighbor doesnt suit their brand of belief or appearance?

Lena: Hate viruses, or bacteria of bullsh*t are easier to spread than tolerance antidotes of the Sermon on the Mount and words of Shakespeares King Lear (None doth offend). Perhaps you should meet our newest friend: Ms. Recovering Republican Lap Dog. Her parents were bred where Lapland overlaps Norway and Vladimir Putins Russia, for export to suburban women all over the United States. However, her breed became estranged from a country club cocoon way-of-life, when their mistresses became estranged from the ABCs of Suburbia (Adultery, Booze and Crabgrass), the Republican Party, and the dogmatic misogyny of their husbands.

Ms. RRLD: Those who wish to dominate others never get their way when folks translate daily live and let live behavior into political action and vote such democratic convictions. That is hard to do, however, when propagandists turn ordinary, descriptive, yet debatable terms, like liberal and conservative, into masks or weapons.

Schickelgruber: Hitler and Goebbels did win the propaganda war in World War II by the way. German soldiers, supposedly invincible, were jacked up on speed, while their home folks were jacked up on lies, and the German High Command was given monetary bribes.

Mr. Crying Wolf: To counter the Nazi onslaught of illusions, FDRs commander, General George Marshall, tapped a top propagandist, Hollywood Producer/Director, Corporal Frank Capra, to produce counter propaganda in the Why We Fight Series. The problem was that Capra ended up repeating the sauerkraut-is-liberty-cabbage mistake. He taught Americans to hate all things German rather than just Nazism, despite a quarter of American troops and officers in World War II (Eisenhower [DDay], Nimitz [Midway], Eichelberger [New Guinea], Spaatz [Bomber Command-England], and Wedemeyer [General Staff]) being of German descent.

Kim Dog Un: As for the Japanese Empire, no problem. White Americans already were racist towards Asian peoples. Trump and his alleged freedom fighters still are.

Mr. Swamp Fox: Failure to distinguish between Nazism in World War II, as well as the Kaisers Imperialism in World War I, and the German heritage of so many Americans, blinded you to the inherent Nazism of lynching black folks, Christianitys Racism (Anti-Semitism) against Jews, race hatred against all peoples of color, and contempt for women.

Omar Khayyam: Nazi, Taliban, or similar mutations of the intolerance virus have been around much longer than Covid-19. Trump merely exploits them for his own sick power trips, along with a few permanent, willing executioners like Stephen Miller, and other part time schemers and mismanagers. Trump and Miller can dehumanize and kill off the powerless in private (lucrative) prisons and (lucrative) immigrant concentration camps, but they cannot intimidate a former federal prosecutor of Crime Boss John Gotti, about to weigh in on their efforts to free Mike Flynn. With AG Barr blinking over bogus charges against Trumps predecessor, the White House backwards parade to medieval savagery and lawlessness, has been temporarily halted.

Schickelgruber: The Nazi horror wasnt just application of technology to genocide, but its clear rejection of humanism and humanitarianism that separated the savage Europe of 16th Century religious wars and 17th Century slave trading and the 20th Century Europe built upon the 18th Century Enlightenment and the 19th Century Industrial Revolution. Angela Merkels Germans represent the better angels in human nature, the way that many of their 1930s forbearers did not.

HPR: And Donald Trumps amoral, AR-15, paranoid, Americans?

Rasputin: The world pities America today; less for Trumps inept Federal response to Covid- 19, than because you have fallen away from ideals of freedom and equality that the world respected you for, even more than for your military might. The nastier truth is that the same 1% that desperately supports Donald Trump today in their fear that times they are a-changin, also stood in the way of those ideals of freedom back then, but at least you had tried. Now you let Trump and his propagandists pump up numerous idiots to politicize a Covid-19 mask. Pathetic!

Ms. RRLD: Trumps and McConnells cramped vision of America has not yet prevailed, but struggle is on in earnest, as Trumps elderly supporters are dropping like flies to an enemy that has no color or gender, while many others desert him as the enemy of their health and welfare.

Putin: Conservative judges actually conserving rule of law are joined by a host of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials; worried about their families and friends, as well as their duty to preserve and protect. Lawlessness of law enforcement in Georgia might be more rare than it was the rule 100 years ago, but it is a reminder of how quickly this country could slip back if you dont cut off the effectiveness of Trumps dog whistles of hatred from the White House.

HPR: But this is 2020! We are supposed to be more civilized, and yet a woman is killed by local police in Georgia for sleeping while black. A young man down there is also gunned down by some stump jumping, KKK wannabes for jogging while black. And neo-Nazis with Trump banners are camped out with their AR-15s at the Michigan State Capitol!

Schickelgruber: Michigans gutsy Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has the overwhelming support of her people, unlike Bavarian State Police of 1923 firing into the ranks of Hitler and his Storm Troopers. A single masked nurse, with I stand with Whitmer written on her arm, put the lie to a Reality TV, very fine people, Trump/Confederacy/Nazi menace in Lansing, MI. Besides, it was white privilege that protected these phony freedom fighters from being gunned down, not their armament. Murdered, unarmed black folks still require the steady, heroic, stoic activism of Georgias Stacy Abrams (Fair Fight), New Yorks Reverend Al Sharpton, and their white allies, like Democratic Presidential nominee, former Obama Vice President Joe Biden, who will, if the rest of us show half as much courage, take out these morons with ballots instead of bullets.

Chicago Dog: Things were worse in Chicago on December 4, 1969. Two men were killed in cold blood by Cook County States Attorney Ed Hanrahans police for the crime of sleeping while Black Panthers. A local version of FOX news, WGN news, filmed many bullet holes exiting the doorframe entered by Fast Eddies search and destroy team. This fiction was demolished by NBCTV reporter Len OConnor, who filmed the actual nail holes outside the West Side apartment that had been reported as bullet holes. States Attorney Hanrahan didnt indict himself, of course, but was, instead, turned out of office in 1972 by angry black, white progressive and moderate voters, a coalition leading to victories of Chicagos first black Mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983 and 1987, and the successful candidacy of President Barack Obama.

Ms. RRLD: The spiritual, intellectual, and organizing enema required to exorcize bigotry and oppression in Chicago of yore is being prepared by Recovering Republicans, the Lincoln Project, to hit Trump where it hurts the most, with TV ads that destroy his image with his own base.

Schickelgruber: One of our members doubles as a pet for one of the Lincoln Project members in D.C. While accompanying his master, shortly after Trump gave that whiny interview with the Lincoln Memorial as a stage prop, complaining he had been treated worse than our countrys greatest President, they managed to bury this sonnet there, where one of us could find it:

Lock Up Ignorance; Not People!

Mismanagement is such a special skill; That only fools like Trump can bring to bear Upon our body politic; to wear Us out, and break our countrys sagging will.

Thats only if we let Trump do it though; As he begins to wreck his own, sad base Of haters; Cynics twards the human race. Lets end Trumps mess to let our freedom grow!

The Democrats have plans, a man and more; Recovering Republicans, who know Just how to hurt Trump; make him feel the pain Above the neck; his addled brain made sore By truth exposing lies he sought to sow. Make sanity and science great again! - Chicago Dog

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