Al Sharpton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
103
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-10-03 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Al Sharpton
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Daily Show
Raw
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report
Real Time with Bill Maher
Boston Legal
Sherri
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Girlfriends
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Anderson Cooper 360°
My Wife and Kids
Rescue Me
Fox News Sunday
New York Undercover
Star
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Mr. Deeds
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Basketball: A Love Story
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
The After Party: The Last Party 3
The Chris Rock Show
Malcolm X
Bamboozled
Satan & Adam
Good Hair
Koch
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
The Central Park Five
America: The Story of Us
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
On the Shoulders of Giants
The First Wave
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
South to Black Power
The Black Godfather
Get Me Roger Stone
Madea Goes to Jail
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
A Tale of James Brown
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
The Black List: Volume One
Let's Talk
JANET JACKSON.
One Night in Vegas
Woman in Motion
Rudy! A Documusical
Run For Cover
Looking for Lenny
Maynard
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Tanner on Tanner
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Cold Feet
Celsius 41.11
MSNBC Live
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
I Am MLK Jr.
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Pursuit of Equality
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
James Brown: Say It Loud
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Uncle Tom
Atrocity Inc.
James Brown: Soul Survivor
The Subtext of a Yale Education
The Last Party
Street Fight
Murder in Black & White
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
If I Die Tonight
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Abraham Obama
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
I Hate My Job
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
91 Bullets in a Minute
Race
