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  2. Al Sharpton - Wikipedia

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    Rev. Al Sharpton outside of New York City Police Department Headquarters, 1999. In 1999, Sharpton led a protest to raise awareness about the death of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea who was shot dead by NYPD officers. Sharpton claimed that Diallo's death was the result of police brutality and racial profiling. Although all four ...

  3. Freddy's Fashion Mart attack - Wikipedia

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    Sharpton subsequently said the perpetrator was an open critic of himself and his nonviolent tactics. In 2002, Sharpton expressed regret for making the racial remark "white interloper" but denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence. [13] [14]

  4. Al Sharpton calls for ‘emergency meeting’ of NY leaders to ...

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    Rev. Al Sharpton said he's planning to organize a meeting with New York politicians in the coming days to address the federal corruption charges against Mayor Adams.

  5. TheGrio Awards, Justice Icon: Al Sharpton - AOL

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    In 1989, Sharpton conducted several protests after a 16-year-old teenager, Yusuf Hawkins, was attacked by a white mob, shot and then killed in Brooklyn. His public display of marching for justice ...

  6. Sharpton: Penny verdict ‘blatant legalization of civilian ...

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    The Rev. Al Sharpton is condemning a jury’s decision to acquit a white Marine veteran in the chokehold death of a homeless Black man on a subway train in New York City last May. Sharpton accused ...

  7. Crown Heights riot - Wikipedia

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    The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City.Black residents attacked Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses.

  8. Black church coalition calls on MSNBC to suspend Al Sharpton ...

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    The National Black Church Initiative is urging MSNBC to suspend Rev. Al Sharpton after his nonprofit accepted $500,000 from Harris ... according to FEC filings first reported by The New York Times ...

  9. National Action Network - Wikipedia

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    Al Sharpton at National Action Network's headquarters in 2007. The National Action Network (NAN) is an American not-for-profit, civil-rights organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton in New York City, New York, in early 1991. [1] In a 2016 profile, Vanity Fair called Sharpton "arguably the country's most influential civil rights leader". [2]