Keepin It Real

Rev. Al Sharpton | https://nationalactionnetwork.net/keepin-it-real-with-reverend-al-sharpton-schedule-2/

The Al Sharpton Show tackles a range of issues from national news stories, key issues impacting people of color, presidential politics, and more. Al Sharpton has brought his powerful voice to radio and tackles the hard topics, while getting answers to real questions.

Rev. Al Sharpton is the founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), a not-for-profit civil rights organization based in Harlem, New York, with over 47 Chapters nationwide. As one of the nation’s most-renowned civil rights leaders, Rev. Sharpton has been praised by President Barack Obama as, “The voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden,” and by former President George W. Bush who said that, “Al cares just as much as I care about making sure every child learns to read, write, add and subtract.”

Featured on the cover of Newsweek Magazine, the opening sentence in the story echoed what many have said about him even since he was a child prodigy, “If the Rev. Al Sharpton didn’t exist, he would have to be invented.” The Wall Street Journal in a cover story said Rev. Al Sharpton has grown from the premier politician of protest to the ultimate political pragmatist (Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2010).

In the October 19th, 2009 issue of New York Magazine, Rev. Sharpton was featured as the only African-American listed among the “Top 12 Most Powerful People in New York City. A USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted in July 2008 called Rev. Sharpton the leader in the country that Blacks turn to speak for them on the issue of race, second only to then Senator Barack Obama. In February 2007, Rev. Sharpton was called “the most prominent civil rights activist in the nation” by the New York Daily News.

Throughout his career, Rev. Al Sharpton has challenged the American political establishment to include all people regardless of race, gender, socio-economic status, or beliefs. In fact, few political figures have been more visible than Rev. Sharpton in the last two decades. Rev. Sharpton’s oratory skills have served as a platform for making changes in the American social and political establishment. He is a nationally syndicated radio host, T.V. personality, and columnist. He has four popular radio shows broadcast throughout the country, a nationally syndicated television show, and a column that appears in national newspapers across the country. He held billions of people spellbound as he delivered a riveting memorial for the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson—a close friend to Rev. Sharpton and National Action Network– and he gave a heartfelt and memorable eulogy at Michael Jackson’s private burial. On two occasions in 2002, Michael came to NAN’s “House of Justice” to discuss artist’s rights and fairness in the entertainment industry.