Al Sharpton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 3, 1954 (age 72)
- Birthplace
- 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)
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Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Movie · as Self
Atrocity Inc.
Movie · as Self - Civil Rights Activist
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Movie · as Self
James Brown: Say It Loud
TV · as Self · 4 eps
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Movie · as Self
South to Black Power
Movie · as Self
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rudy! A Documusical
Movie · as Self
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Loudmouth
Movie · as Self
Sherri
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
JANET JACKSON.
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Movie · as Self
The First Wave
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Movie · as Self
Woman in Motion
Movie · as Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Movie · as Self - Minister & Activist
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Movie · as Self
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Movie · as Self
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
Movie · as Self
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
TV · as Self · 10 eps
The Joy Reid Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Black Godfather
Movie · as Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Movie · as Self
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Movie · as Self
I Am MLK Jr.
Movie · as Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie · as Self
Satan & Adam
Movie · as Self
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Movie · as Self - Civil rights activist
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
Movie · as self
Basketball: A Love Story
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Maynard
Movie · as Self
Get Me Roger Stone
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
TV · as Self · 1 ep
A Tale of James Brown
Movie · as Self
Star
TV · as Rev. Al Sharpton · 1 ep
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Movie · as Self - National Action Network
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Empire
TV · as Rev. Al Sharpton · 1 ep
91 Bullets in a Minute
Movie · as Self
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Movie · as Self
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Movie · as Self
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Movie · as Self
Koch
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Central Park Five
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Steve Harvey
TV · as Self · 1 ep
On the Shoulders of Giants
Movie
Looking for Lenny
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Movie · as Self
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
Movie · as Self
PoliticsNation
TV · as Self · 7 eps
One Night in Vegas
Movie · as Self
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Race
Movie · as Self
America: The Story of Us
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Good Hair
Movie · as Self
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Movie · as Self
Madea Goes to Jail
Movie · as Self
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Movie · as Self
If I Die Tonight
Movie · as Self
Abraham Obama
Movie · as Self
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
TV · as Himself · 2 eps
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Black List: Volume One
Movie · as Self
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Movie · as Self
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Movie · as Self
Murder in Black & White
TV · 4 eps
The Jena 6
Movie · as Self
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
Movie · as Self
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Street Fight
Movie · as Self
Pursuit of Equality
Movie · as Self
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Movie
The Colbert Report
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Celsius 41.11
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rescue Me
TV · 1 ep
Boston Legal
TV · as Reverend Al Sharpton · 2 eps
I Hate My Job
TV · 7 eps
Tanner on Tanner
TV · as Self · 2 eps
James Brown: Soul Survivor
Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 2 eps
Anderson Cooper 360°
TV · 4 eps
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Mr. Deeds
Movie · as The Rhyme Master
My Wife and Kids
TV · 1 ep
Democracy Now!
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Bamboozled
Movie · as Himself
Let's Talk
Movie
Girlfriends
TV · as Al Sharpton · 2 eps
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Movie · as Self
Cold Feet
Movie · as The Reverend
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
The Chris Rock Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Daily Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 7 eps
MS NOW Reports
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Fox News Sunday
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Run For Cover
Movie · as Himself
New York Undercover
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Last Party
Movie · as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Raw
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Malcolm X
Movie · as Speaker #2
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Movie · as Self
Everyman
TV · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited) · 1 ep
Meet the Press
TV · as Self - Panelist · 1 ep