Word: sharptons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week before the end of the longest sit-in in Harvard history, Al Sharpton, one of New York's most prominent protest organizers, left Institute of Politics (IOP) planners in the lurch for the second straight week...
...Sharpton's second cancellation in the past month...
...terrible as racial profiling is, it can't be abolished as easily as critics like Al Sharpton seem to think. The sad truth is that racist cops are not the only ones who think that young black men are suspect, especially when they're dressed in a certain way and exude a certain attitude. Black cops believe it. Jesse Jackson--who once confessed that he felt relieved when the young man coming up behind him on a dark street in Washington turned out to be Caucasian--believes it. And so do I. Given the large number of violent crimes committed...
...SHARPTON With Jesse on the ropes, opportunity to be top Rev. Oratory abhors a vacuum...
...every minor crisis--the expulsion of six roughnecks from a Decatur, Ill., high school; the supposed lynching of a Mississippi youth, which turned out to be a suicide--to the glorious civil rights battleground of Selma, Ala. Since last fall, he has been tussling with his former protege, Al Sharpton, who annoyed Jackson by launching a boycott of Burger King, which has long been one of Jackson's corporate allies. Not until last year's presidential campaign, when Jackson worked his heart out to help produce the huge black turnout that nearly put Al Gore in the White House...