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...just talking about the likes of Minister Louis Farrakhan, the Rev. Al Sharpton and their brand of self-promoting demagogues. The crisis of Black leadership runs much deeper; even responsible activists and political officials have evaded the real issues underlying the Barry trial...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...York, protestors at the Central Park jogger trial followed Sharpton's lead and heckled the gang rape victim by calling her "slut" and "liar." Many prominent Black leaders--including some from the local NAACP--complained about the disproportionate media attention paid to the jogger, who is white. Only in the wake of public outrage did they denounce the savagery and lawlessness of the crime...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Tawana Brawley. Two years ago, she turned New York upside down by charging she'd been raped for four days by six white men. The story turned out to be a fabrication. But she carries on regardless, as does her spiritual adviser through that episode, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has now started picketing the Barry trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Black Rejectionists | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

Whatever the motive for the killing, tension mounted after a series of protest marches through Bensonhurt led by one of the city's most flamboyant rabble-rousers, the Rev. Al Sharpton. Inflammatory press coverage added to the heat. When the first two Bensonhurst youths charged with the killing went on trial separately in state supreme court on April 16, apprehension gripped the city. Not-guilty verdicts, blustered Sharpton, would be "telling us to burn the town down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...about what he did to Sharpton? Art. Pure [censored...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

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