Al Sharpton News – The New York Times
Aug. 27, 2014
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column criticizes Pres Obama for failing to publicly weigh in on events in Ferguson, Mo, instead dispatching Atty Gen Eric Holder and deputizing Rev Al Sharpton to deal with issue of race. MORE
Rev Al Sharpton has transformed himself from an overweight Brooklyn firebrand into the White Houses civil rights leader of choice, an incessantly televised pundit, and even a poster child for a strict diet of salad and juice; seems a constant media presence, and never more so than in racially fraught crises, like police-related deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo, and Eric Garner on Staten Island. MORE
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio gathers with religious leaders, including Cardinal Timothy M Dolan and Rev Al Sharpton, in attempt to ease tensions in wake of choking death of Eric Garner, black Staten Island man who died in police custody; de Blasio hopes to show leadership as racial divisions escalate ahead of planned protest march. MORE
Rev Al Sharpton, seeking to defuse concerns over planned march across Verrazano-Narrows Bridge protesting aggressive police tactics, says march will instead be held on Staten Island, where Eric Garner died after being put in chokehold by police. MORE
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will arrange meeting of religious leaders to help ease tensions between police and community leaders after death of Eric Garner, who died in police custody; is hoping that this meeting, which will be led by Cardinal Timothy M Dolan, will be more effective than one in July, where Rev Al Sharpton attacked New York City's law enforcement. MORE
New York City officials appear to be distancing themselves from oversight authority over march across Verrazano-Narrows Bridge planned by Rev Al Sharpton as protest of the role police played in death of Staten Island man Eric Garner; there also appears to be confusion among organizers about who will be in charge of the event. MORE
Rev Al Sharpton and the family of Eric Garner, who died after being put into chokehold by police on Staten Island, have asked federal prosecutors to investigate the death as a civil rights violation. MORE
Growing tensions between Rev Al Sharpton and Rep Charles B Rangel add further uncertainty to congressmans bid for re-election; Sharpton's none-too-veiled scolding to Rangel for race-baiting highlights how Rangel is fighting against time to maintain his generation's weakening grip on political power, while Sharpton is seeking to consolidate his own political influence in New York. MORE
Rev Al Sharpton sends out stern warning against race-baiting in contest for 13th Congressional District in New York; message appears to be aimed at Rep Charles B Rangel of Harlem who repeatedly discussed race in a debate for the upcoming Democratic primary for Congress. MORE
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