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RNC Chair Steele Refuses to Cancel Speech at Sharpton Event
Angela Sailor, the Republican National Committee’s Director of Coalitions, called me today to inform me that Michael Steele will speak as scheduled at the annual conference of Al Sharpton’s group, the...
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Are Republican National Committee Donors Now Bankrolling Sharpton?
The annual conference of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) runs today through Saturday in New York City. According to the official program, the “Republican National Convention” is among the...
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MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo reported live on Wednesday, April 14 from the National Action Network (NAN) conference about NLPC's request that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele cancel...
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'New' Al Sharpton Draws Praise from Obama, Top Officials
If Reverend Al Sharpton was radioactive to future President Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign, he's become a shadow member of the Obama cabinet in 2010. The close working relationship between the...
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Sharpton's Arizona Mission: Corporate- and Union-Sponsored
Reverend Al Sharpton has something new to be angry about. Last Friday, April 23, Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation known as "SB1070" requiring law enforcement authorities to ask...
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Colgate-Palmolive CEO Admits Bankrolling Sharpton After Company Denied It
Yesterday, Dr. Carl Horowitz of the NLPC staff spoke at the Colgate-Palmolive annual meeting in New York City in support of our resolution asking the company to disclose its charitable contributions....
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Newsweek Puff Piece on Sharpton Distorts Reality
The transformation of Reverend Al Sharpton from street provocateur to civil rights eminence ranks as one of the more remarkable image makeovers in American public life. And mainstream journalism has...
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Sharpton's Finances in Disarray Despite Bloomberg Support
By any reasonable standard, Reverend Al Sharpton is the most powerful black civil-rights leader in New York City, if not the entire nation. So why are the finances of his nearly two-decade-old...
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Obama Forfeits Moral Leadership by Embracing Sharpton
I am tempted to say that President Obama rushing up to New York City to embrace Al Sharpton during the opening days of his campaign is evidence of a weakness in his re-election prospects. But it is...
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Gingrich Must Repudiate Sharpton
Today we are asking Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich to repudiate Al Sharpton. Gingrich appeared around the country in late 2009 as part of something called the Education Equality...
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Will Comcast Reveal Ties to MSNBC Anchorman-in-Waiting Al Sharpton?
"Al Sharpton, anchorman" - the phrase has an undeniably odd ring. Yet on MSNBC it's already a part-time reality. And his close relationship to MSNBC's parent, Comcast Corp., may enable him to become...
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Sharpton Becomes Full-Time MSNBC Anchorman
Al Sharpton's newest role - full-time anchorman - is now a reality. The New York City-based black activist, preacher and former presidential candidate launched his MSNBC-TV talk show, "PoliticsNation,"...
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Obama Fails 'Uniter' Test on Trayvon Martin Incident
This past weekend saw further escalation of nationwide demonstrations over the fatal February 26 shooting of a black Florida teenager, Trayvon Martin, by a white neighborhood watch volunteer. Though in...
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Sharpton Annual Conference Again Heavily Corporate-Funded
Whatever else might be said of Reverend Al Sharpton, when he throws a party, he does it in style. The 14th annual conference of his New York-based nonprofit National Action Network (NAN) last month in...
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Sharpton Way Behind on Washington, D.C. Rent; Faces Eviction
The new, improved Reverend Al Sharpton has been establishing a Washington, D.C. presence ever since President Obama took office nearly four years ago. But apparently, the New York City-based minister,...
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Obama, Holder, Sharpton Misrepresent Facts in Trayvon Martin Case; Seek...
The acquittal by a six-member Florida jury on July 13 in the trial of George Zimmerman for second-degree murder, with an option to convict for manslaughter, at least among rational people, produced...
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RFK Jr.'s 2001 Diary Blasts Sharpton, Jackson, the Cuomos
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., like his late father, Robert F. Kennedy, long has had a reputation for bluntness. And though a partisan of the Democratic Party Left, he can be as unsparing in his assessment of...
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Al Sharpton Revealed as FBI Mob Sting Informant
The Reverend Al Sharpton, anchorman, preacher, politician and shakedown artist extraordinaire, has led what can be viewed as a charmed life. A lengthy expose published yesterday on The Smoking Gun...
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Sharpton Creates Tension in Wake of St. Louis-Area Rioting
The arrival of Al Sharpton in St. Louis could have been predicted. And his departure can't come soon enough. On Tuesday morning, Sharpton, the New York City-based minister, civil rights leader and...
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Is Eric Holder Trying to Railroad Ferguson Cop?
If anyone thought the Obama administration planned to sit on the sidelines after the riots in Ferguson, Mo., those thoughts should be dispelled by now. Last Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder...
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