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Rev. Al Sharpton

MSNBC columnist

The Rev. Al Sharpton is an MSNBC columnist and civil rights leader. Over 40 years in public service, he has held such notable positions as youth director of New York’s Operation Breadbasket, director of ministers for the National Rainbow Push coalition and founder of his own broad-based progressive civil rights organization, the National Action Network. He hosts “PoliticsNation,” which airs from 5 to 6 p.m. ET on weekends on MSNBC. 

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Rev. Al Sharpton

Decades before George Floyd, a shooting in Teaneck’s ‘utopia’ shocked Black America

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Amir Locke had a future. A no-knock warrant destroyed it.

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Americans are still fighting for voting rights

Illustration of MSNBC host Al Sharpton and a Black Lives Matter protest,

How to achieve true justice in America (and what that means)

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Hunter Brittain’s death in a police traffic stop is injustice. Period.

Image; Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testifies at the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on April 5, 2021.

Derek Chauvin’s trial shows police reform needs to come from cops

Photo illustration of a vaccine as a weighting scale that is weighed down more on one side by COVID-19 spores than the other.

Covid vaccine skepticism among Black Americans is falling — but there’s a bigger issue

Image: Profile of Raphael Warnock fades into an old image of women at an African American church. The image has red moving blocks over it.

Georgia Senate race has Rev. Raphael Warnock facing down a familiar racist playbook

Image: Livia Johnson, an organizer with Warriors in the Garden, raises her fist as she marches with protesters through New York's Times Square on June 14, 2020.

Black voters turned out for Biden. Here’s how he can repay them.

Image: Scenes from the Civil Rights movement, the Black Lives Matter movement and Donald Trump walking away.

We are all tired of trying to convince Trump racism is real. We have to keep trying.