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)
68 movies · 39 shows
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
2024·6.2
Atrocity Inc.
2024·10.0
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
2024·0.0
South to Black Power
2023·3.5
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
2023·0.0
Loudmouth
2022·6.0
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
2022·6.6
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022·0.0
Rudy! A Documusical
2022·0.0
The First Wave
2021·6.6
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021·7.3
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021·7.6
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
2021·0.0
Woman in Motion
2021·6.8
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
2020·6.4
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
2020·0.0
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
2020·0.0
The Black Godfather
2019·6.6
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018·7.2
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
2018·0.0
Satan & Adam
2018·7.3
I Am MLK Jr.
2018·8.8
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018·0.0
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018·0.0
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
2018·0.0
Maynard
2017·5.2
Get Me Roger Stone
2017·7.0
A Tale of James Brown
2016·0.0
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
2015·0.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014·8.0
91 Bullets in a Minute
2014·0.0
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014·6.9
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014·0.0
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
2013·6.0
Koch
2013·4.9
The Central Park Five
2012·7.0
The After Party: The Last Party 3
2011·0.0
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011·6.3
Looking for Lenny
2011·5.4
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
2011·0.0
Race
2010·6.8
One Night in Vegas
2010·6.3
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
2010·6.5
Good Hair
2009·6.5
If I Die Tonight
2009·1.0
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
2009·10.0
Madea Goes to Jail
2009·6.5
Abraham Obama
2009·0.0
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
2009·0.0
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008·0.0
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008·6.6
The Black List: Volume One
2008·6.5
The Jena 6
2007·0.0
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
2006·0.0
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2005·6.5
Pursuit of Equality
2005·3.0
Street Fight
2005·6.9
Celsius 41.11
2004·5.5
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003·7.7
Mr. Deeds
2002·5.9
Bamboozled
2000·6.3
Let's Talk
2000·10.0
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999·0.0
Cold Feet
1999·3.7
Run For Cover
1995·4.4
The Last Party
1993·5.2
Malcolm X
1992·7.6
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
1990·0.0