Al Sharpton
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
102
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
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
The Colbert Report
The Colbert Report
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Boston Legal
Sherri
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Girlfriends
Anderson Cooper 360°
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Rescue Me
New York Undercover
Basketball: A Love Story
Star
My Wife and Kids
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Malcolm X
The Chris Rock Show
Mr. Deeds
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
South to Black Power
Abraham Obama
The Black Godfather
The First Wave
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
On the Shoulders of Giants
The Central Park Five
America: The Story of Us
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
A Tale of James Brown
Madea Goes to Jail
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
The Black List: Volume One
Tanner on Tanner
Run For Cover
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Rudy! A Documusical
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Woman in Motion
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Bamboozled
Koch
Celsius 41.11
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
JANET JACKSON.
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Get Me Roger Stone
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Pursuit of Equality
One Night in Vegas
Let's Talk
James Brown: Say It Loud
MSNBC Live
Good Hair
Satan & Adam
Looking for Lenny
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
WSJ Opinion Documentary: "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited
Uncle Tom
James Brown: Soul Survivor
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton
I Hate My Job
The Last Party
Murder in Black & White
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
The Subtext of a Yale Education
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Cold Feet
Atrocity Inc.
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Race
I Am MLK Jr.
Maynard
91 Bullets in a Minute
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Street Fight
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
If I Die Tonight
