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An Alabama pastor and voting rights activist, who is the half-brother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, pleaded guilty Friday to federal tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy charges.Kenneth Glasgow of Dothan entered the plea in Montgomery federal court. The guilty plea avoided a trial that was scheduled to take place next month. He will be sentenced at a later date. Glasgow, the founder of The Ordinary People Society, is a well-known Alabama activist who has worked on the restoration of voting rights for former prisoners, prison reform and other issues. He has been a frequent critic of the state prison system and police in his hometown.Prosecutors said Glasgow admitted not paying income taxes on thousands of dollars he withdrew from the charities and also to claiming Social Security disability benefits by falsely claiming on mailed forms that he had trouble driving. Prosecutors said Glasgow received traffic citations between 2015 and 2020 relating to approximately 27 different traffic stops, all of which indicated that Glasgow was the driverGlasgow also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Prosecutors in 2021 charged Glasgow and another man with the drug conspiracy charge. The U.S. attorney's office said in a press release that Glasgow faces up to 20 years in prison, along with substantial fines and restitution. Kenneth Glasgows actions not only endangered the community, but defrauded the American taxpayers, Paul Brown, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI said in a statement. His guilty plea should help to dissuade others from following this same path.Related stories:Alabama activist out on bond for capital murder jailed on 3 additional chargesAl Sharpton's half-brother arrested again while on bond
An Alabama pastor and voting rights activist, who is the half-brother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, pleaded guilty Friday to federal tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy charges.
Kenneth Glasgow of Dothan entered the plea in Montgomery federal court. The guilty plea avoided a trial that was scheduled to take place next month. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Glasgow, the founder of The Ordinary People Society, is a well-known Alabama activist who has worked on the restoration of voting rights for former prisoners, prison reform and other issues. He has been a frequent critic of the state prison system and police in his hometown.
Prosecutors said Glasgow admitted not paying income taxes on thousands of dollars he withdrew from the charities and also to claiming Social Security disability benefits by falsely claiming on mailed forms that he had trouble driving. Prosecutors said Glasgow received traffic citations between 2015 and 2020 relating to approximately 27 different traffic stops, all of which indicated that Glasgow was the driver
Glasgow also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Prosecutors in 2021 charged Glasgow and another man with the drug conspiracy charge.
The U.S. attorney's office said in a press release that Glasgow faces up to 20 years in prison, along with substantial fines and restitution.
Kenneth Glasgows actions not only endangered the community, but defrauded the American taxpayers, Paul Brown, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI said in a statement. His guilty plea should help to dissuade others from following this same path.
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Rev. Al Sharpton stepped onto the national stage as an activist in 1980s New York City, a time of heightened racial tension in the Big Apple, and has become a nationwide voice in the social justice movement.
In the documentary Loudmouth, which premieres on BET before the NAACP Image Awards on Feb. 25, Sharpton, a Brooklyn native, recalled the simmering racial environment in New York City and around the country at that time.
In one incident that ignited a racial firestorm, Bernhard H. Goetz, the so-called subway vigilante, who is white, opened fire on four Black teenage boys in 1984 on a Manhattan train, partially paralyzing one of them. Goetz claimed self-defense because he believed he was going to be mugged when they asked him for $5. Three years later, a jury acquitted him of attempted murder.
In another high-profile incident, a mob of white teens wielding baseball bats chased a 23-year-old Black man, Michael Griffith, to his death on Dec. 20, 1986 in Howard Beach, Queens. The thugs, angered by seeing a Black man in their neighborhood, yelled the N-word at Griffith, who was struck by a car fleeing the mob.
Amid the boiling racial tension, Sharpton recalled that New York Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, used racist dog whistles, like the term Black poverty pimps, to appeal to some white voters.
Sharpton has given voice to our trauma and anger for decades showing no signs of slowing down as a younger generation of activists continue the struggle for racial justice and equality.
Over the years, hes mastered the tools of activism. Here are five lessons from his playbook revealed in the documentary.
Sharpton said in the story of the hunter and the lion, the hunter always wins. Why? Thats because the hunter writes the story. In the hunters narrative, the lion is always depicted as inferior and unworthy.
Translation: The system writes the story, which is always slanted. Everytime we come into a case the first thing we have to do is fight the wrong narrative, Sharpton says. They try to criminalize and demonize the victim.
Its one thing to orate about the evils of racism but another thing to shine a light on it, the preacher says. As a younger man, all the activists he studied emerged at a time when white people ignored complaints about injustice from Black leaders. So you had to be loud because you were not invited to address the public, he noted.
At the time of Griffiths death, the media largely ignored the case. Sharpton said he could have stayed at home and delivered speeches, but he decided that it would be more effective to go to Howard Beach and have folks there make the speech for him.
Understanding the power of capturing hatred on video, Sharpton drew news cameras to Howard Beach by leading a huge youth rally in the neighborhood. At the peaceful demonstration, Reporters interviewed angry Howard Beach residents who unabashedly spewed the N-word and said Black people are not welcomed in their community.
A jury convicted three white teenagers of manslaughter for Griffiths death after a tense three-months trial and 12 days of deliberations. The jury, which included just one Black person, also found them guilty of first-degree assault for beating another Black man, Cedric Sandiford, with a baseball bat that night.
It would have been easy to say mission accomplished, this victory changes everything, and go home.
But effective activists understand that theres a difference between moments and movements. You could have a good momentary victory without structural change in the criminal justice system, Sharpton admonishes.
Activists must learn how to expand support for social justice by navigating two widely held views that could stifle the movement.
Sharpton said white people often demand to know why he makes everything about race. At the same time, many Black people have asked him why hes leading marches because nothing is going to change, anyway.
Its somewhere between these two questions that Ive had to do a lot of my work in activism, the civil rights leader says.
Often, the public fixates on an individual incident and misses the underlying issue. Effective activism involves surfacing the systemic problem to bring about change.
Preachers learn to use biblical stories to highlight moral or ethical messages, Sharpton noted. He has applied that method to his social justice work. What happened to Griffith in Howard Beach is the story, but the issue is racial violence. Use the story to make the issue clear.
LOUDMOUTH premiers on Saturday, February 25 at 4:30 p.m on BET, BET Her, VH1 and will stream on BET+ following the "54th NAACP Image Awards". The film can also be seen on Showtime at a later date.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence has declined an invitation to the Conservative Political Action Conference, sources told ABC News.
The decision by Pence, who is debating a 2024 presidential run, comes as other notable figures are absent from this year's lineup.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who spoke at CPAC last year, has two events scheduled in Texas as CPAC gets underway in Maryland.
A spokesperson for CPAC told ABC News that neither Pence nor DeSantis are currently slated to attend.
"It's a missed opportunity for any potential Presidential Candidate to not address the thousands of grassroots activists at CPAC this year. Luckily, CPAC attendees will get to hear from every announced Presidential candidate and over 100 premiere speakers, including over 30 elected officials," Megan Powers, a spokesperson for CPAC, told ABC News on Saturday.
DeSantis' spokesperson did not respond to ABC News' request for comment. A spokesperson for Pence declined to comment.
Pence did not attend the event in 2022 and declined an invitation in 2021. This year's absences come as the chairman of CPAC -- which bills itself as the "largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world" -- is embroiled in a sexual assault scandal.
Earlier this year, a staffer for one-time Senate candidate Herschel Walker alleged that Matt Schlapp, the chairman of CPAC, "groped" and "fondled" his crotch while he was driving Schlapp back from a bar in Atlanta, according to a report from The Daily Beast. The staffer then filed a lawsuit against Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes, seeking $9.4 million for sexual battery and defamation, according to a report.
A statement from Schlapp's attorney at the time said the complaint is "false" and the "Schlapps and their legal team are assessing counter lawsuit options."
But some say the allegations have "exacerbated" issues for the organization.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise that CPAC is not attracting the big names that it once did. There's a feeling within the Republican Party that CPAC has long abandoned the traditional values that it once stood for," one GOP operative said. "The allegations against Matt Schlapp for allegedly 'pummeling' a man's 'junk' against his will have only exacerbated these issues and are likely to contribute to further decline by the organization."
Still, the event had drawn speakers such as former President Donald Trump and ambassador Nikki Haley, both of whom have declared their candidacy for 2024.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recently called for a "national divorce" between Republican and Democratic states, is also scheduled to speak.
Kari Lake, the Trump-backed candidate who lost her bid for governor in Arizona and pushed false claims of election fraud, will be the featured speaker for Friday night's Reagan dinner.
The CPAC announcement praised her as "a rare leader who captured the hearts of conservatives with her honest, bold message including closing the Arizona border and exposing widespread election fraud."
"CPAC is a great place for conservatives to come together, Lake said in a video posted on Twitter by Schlapp last week.
The event is scheduled to run from March 1-4.
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