Al Sharpton
Acting
- Born:
- 1954-10-03
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
Known For
Filmography
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Atrocity Inc.
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
James Brown: Say It Loud
South to Black Power
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Loudmouth
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Sherri
Rudy! A Documusical
JANET JACKSON.
The First Wave
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Woman in Motion
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
The Joy Reid Show
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
The Black Godfather
Basketball: A Love Story
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
Satan & Adam
I Am MLK Jr.
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Maynard
Get Me Roger Stone
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Star
A Tale of James Brown
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Empire
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
91 Bullets in a Minute
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Koch
Steve Harvey
The Central Park Five
PoliticsNation
The After Party: The Last Party 3
On the Shoulders of Giants
Looking for Lenny
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
Race
One Night in Vegas
America: The Story of Us
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Good Hair