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11/27/2017 1:54 PM PST

Al Sharptonmet withMeek Millbehind bars, and says the rapper told him he wanted to serve as a vessel of change for others who are wrongly imprisoned ... like he is now.

Al appeared Monday alongside Meek's attorney,Joe Tacopina, to address his prison visit with the guy he promised to help, and he says Meek wants him to help shed a light on a broken criminal justice system. Al says Meek is also determined to be a voice for the voiceless.

The civil rights leader explained that Meek appears determined, strong and without a trace of bitterness after being sentenced to prison for 2 to 4 years for violating his probation ... violations that Al says weren't pursued as crimes, but punished as such, regardless.

He also talked about his time going to bat for Tupac Shakur in the '90s to help get him out of solitary confinement, explaining how he's the right guy to help Meek fight his case now.

Sounds like Al's officially in Meek's corner.

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11/26/2017 4:58 PM PST

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Al Sharpton is hellbent on getting Meek Mill another shot at freedom, and says there's proof he can do it because he also came through forTupac ... when he was doing hard time.

Al tells TMZ his Monday visit with Meek -- and Meek's attorneyJoe Tacopina-- will be just the beginning of his work on the case. Al's hoping to get Judge Genece Brinkley replaced, and pressure Pennsylvania authorities on what he thinks is too stiff a punishment for Meek.

Al says he helped negotiate with the warden at NY's Clinton Correctional Facility in the 90s .... to get Tupac released from solitary confinement. He believes that experience will be key to helping Meek in PA.

The Philly rapper had been in solitary due to his celebrity status, but as TMZ first reported ... he wasremoved at his request.

Al says job one will be making it clear to PA authorities Meek's2-4 year prison sentence is harsh and unjust ... considering the cases behind his probation violation.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton wants race to weigh heavily in who becomes the next leader of the City Council.

The civil-rights activist complained that a black member has never been elected council speaker, and he plans to raise the issue during a forum hell be hosting Tuesday at the National Action Networks House of Justice headquarters in Harlem.

The city has an open sore because theres never been a black council speaker, Sharpton told The Post. I would like to see a black speaker, but Im not going to take any black.

Of the eight council members vying for speaker, Brooklyn Councilman Robert Cornegy, Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams and Queens Councilman Donovan Richards are black, while Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres is black and Latino.

The remaining field includes Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, and three white men: Manhattan Councilmen Corey Johnson and Mark Levine and Queens Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.

Sharpton said he has spoken already to the three front-runners Levine, Cornegy and Johnson but wants to do a real evaluation.

Although the speaker is selected by securing a majority of votes in the 51-member council, outside influence such as party leaders and union bosses play a key role in who is chosen.

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by Joel B. Pollak19 Nov 20170

Sharpton is widely blamed for a riot in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1991 in which a mob killed an innocent religious student, Yankel Rosenbaum.

In addition, Sharpton has been blamed for inciting the 1995 firebombing of Freddys Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned store in Harlem, New York.

As the Media Research Center noted in 2015, on the 20th anniversary of the attack:

Sharpton was one of the main causesof the hatred which led tofire bombing of Freddys Fashion Mart. He didnt toss the firebomb, but the anti-Semitic and racial bias which came out of his mouth and out of the mouths of other while in his presence, produced the massacre as assuredly as if the fire was set with his hands.

On December 8, 1995, Al Sharpton incited the violent fire-bombing of the Jewish-owned Freddys Fashion Mart in Harlem, causing the the deaths of Angelina Marrero,Cynthia Martinez,Luz Ramos, Mayra Rentas, Olga Garcia, Garnette Ramautar, and Kareem Brunner theseven victimsof the massacre. There was an eighth death, Roland James Smith,the man who burned the store down.

Sharpton also played a role in fomenting racial divisions around the death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012. He spread claims that the Hispanic man who shot him, George Zimmerman, was white, and that he had used racist language during the incident.Using his perch at MSNBC, his National Action Network activist group, and his connections with the Obama White House, Sharpton whipped national outrage over Martins death into a frenzy that set the stage for the violent Black Lives Matter protests of 2014, and that continues to divide the nation.

Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, never once mentioned Sharptons past in his appearance on Sundays show. Instead, he joined Sharpton in attacking President Donald Trump for his reaction to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.

The ADL CEO even suggested that Trump is indirectly responsible for hate crimes: Hate will fester when we dont force it down. And when the president fails to call out bigots, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, they feel emboldened. And when extremists feel emboldened, they take action.

Yet Greenblatt failed to call out Sharptons own role in encouraging extremists.

A year ago, Greenblatt and the ADL played a leading role in spreading false claims that Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon is an antisemite. Faced with the facts, however, the ADL backed away from that claim.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named one of the most influential people in news media in 2016. He is the co-author ofHow Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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by Trent Baker9 Oct 20170

Rev. Al Sharpton thinks it is outrageous ESPN is suspending SC6 anchor Jemele Hill over her tweets calling for a Dallas Cowboys boycott because ownerJerry Jones is requiring players to stand for the national anthem.

First of all, Jemele Hill and anyone else has the right to express their views, Sharpton told TMZ Sports. To try and silence her will not silence many of us that feel what Jerry Jones has done is put the Cowboys players in a position of either I must sell my right to express my feelings, my freedom of speech, my right to protest in order to do my trade and do my business. That is, in my opinion, disrespectingwhat the flag is supposed to stand for.

We will not be shutdown and we will not be suspended and we will not stand for her to be suspended, he added.

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