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Byron Allen, a plaintiff in a $20 billion lawsuit against Comcast for racial discrimination, accused the media conglomerate on HuffPost Live Friday of paying off Al Sharpton as racial cover at the expense of market share for 100% African-American owned media ventures.

AT&T spent more money throwing Al Sharpton a lavish 60th birthday party than they spend on Ebony magazine, which is a magazine thats been around for 70 years, Allen told host Caroline Modarressay-Tehrani. He is the least-expensive negro. Instead of spending real money, with real 100% African-American owned media, it is easier to give him $50,000 to give them cover.

The suit alleges, among other things, that Comcast paid off Sharpton to hang fire on criticisms of Comcasts merger with NBCUniversal, which the plaintiffs believe excluded African-American media properties.

The industry spends about $50 billion a year licensing cable networks in which 100% African American-owned media receives less than $3 million per year in revenue, Allen alleged. It creates generational wealth and market caps that do not exist in our community, because theyre able to pay people like Al Sharpton cover not to truly do business with 100% African-American owned media.

Allen also accused President Barack Obama of collusion with Comcast. Obama allowed the biggest media merger in the history of humankind, and true 100% African-American owned media is not included, Allen said. President Obama has been bought and paid for.

Sharptons non-profit National Action Network called the allegations less than credible.

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Another day, another Al Sharpton visit to the White House.

Sharpton met with President Obama, along with a group of some 20 other civil rights and faith leaders, Thursday for what was described as an update on administration priorities.

He was joined by the heads of the NAACP, the National Urban League and other groups.

The meeting was also an opportunity to have a dialogue with the leaders about the issues facing their communities, including criminal justice, education, health care and economic development, according to the White House.

Sharpton was last in the White House in December, when he sat across the table from Obama during televised remarks that focused on police-community relations.

Later Thursday, about 300 civil rights leaders, along with lawmakers including Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, attended a reception at the White House.

The events were geared toward Black History Month, as well as the third anniversary of Trayvon Martins death and the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march.

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EAST LANSING -- A man not unfamiliar with criticism, Rev. Al Sharpton Thursday called on a crowd at Michigan State University's Wharton Center to not back down from activism in the 21st century.

Sharpton, the third and final speaker in the university's Dr. William Anderson From Freedom to Slavery: An American Odyssey lecture series, is used to being criticized for being at the forefront of many sensitive conversations in the country.

On Thursday, he said many are looking to tear down activists while lauding those who have come before -- as many have done with the release of the movie Selma -- because they're afraid of doing the hard work.

"We love to talk about what other generations did. The tension comes when the present generation talks about what we must do," Sharpton said.

He added, "We will find any reason to besmirch or smear a movement, because we really want to find a reason not to do what others did so well before us."

Sharpton -- who received $5,000 for speaking at the university, according to contract documents obtained by The State News -- followed speeches by Harry Belafonte and Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who both spoke earlier this month. Belafonte's lecture cost the university $25,000, according to The State News report, and Lewis spoke for free.

Speaking for about 45 minutes Thursday, Sharpton hit on many of the same themes that Belafonte and Lewis touched. He especially emphasized how far African Americans have come in the fight for equality while giving examples on how far the community has to go.

He told a story about finding out that former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond's ancestors owned his ancestors as slaves before the Civil War, and talked about how his mother had to endure segregation. Many people who tell the black community not to focus on race don't understand how close it is to home for African Americans, he said.

"It's easy for people to talk about getting over something they never had to get over," he said. "... They call us race baiters. No, we (sic) talking about our family tree."

Sharpton also talked about the protests in Ferguson, MO, and Staten Island in New York City in the summer of 2014. Sharpton was involved in the organization of protests in both cities at the request of the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, he said.

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