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Al Sharpton #39;s Ohio tour stops at Central State
The Reverend Al Sharpton appeared before a large crowd at Central State University Thursday night.
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Rev. Al Sharpton
Rev. Al Sharptonis the founder and President of the National Action Network(NAN), a not-for-profit civil rights organization headquartered in Harlem, New York, with over seventy chapters nationwide including a Washington, DC Bureau and regional offices from coast to coast.
As one of the nations most-renowned civil rights leaders,a March 2013 Zogby poll said one out of every four African-Americans say that Rev. Sharpton is the person that speaks most for them. Rev. Sharpton polled higher than any other civil rights or political leader in this public opinion survey.
Rev. Al 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.
Rev. Al Sharpton is currently the host ofa daily television show on MSNBC thatanalyzesthe top political and social news and features the countrys leading newsmakers. PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton airs at 6:00 p.m.Monday through Friday. The showis so popular it broke MSNBC ratings history with the highest viewership of any show at 6:00 p.m. since the networks inception.
Rev. Sharpton also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show Keepin it Realthat is heard daily all over the country as well as two weekend radio shows that air in markets within the U.S.
Rev. Sharpton delivers live remarks at NANs weekly Saturday Rally at NANs Harlem headquarters the House of Justice that is broadcast live on NANs websitewww.nationalactionnetwork.neteachSaturday from 9-11 a.m.
Reverend Al Sharpton, is the author of The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership.In stores on October 8, 2013, the book will be published through a joint venture partnership between Cash Money Content, thepublishing arm of premier record label Cash Money Records and Massenburg Media, in partnership with Atria/Simon & Schuster.In the book, Reverend Al intimately discusses his personal evolution from street activist, pulpit provocateur and civil rights leader, to the larger-than-life man he is today, while providing a series of essential life lessons that readers can adopt to transform their own lives.
From the Central Park Five to gay & lesbian rights to the immigration debates, I have prided myself on taking the side of the rejected people, says Reverend Al Sharpton,and so I decided to call this bookThe Rejected Stone, from a passage of scripture which refers to a stone which was rejected by builders that, in the end, became the chief cornerstone.In the end, that sums up my lifes journey and so many of my people, says Reverend Al.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday told a crowd at Central State University that people across the country are concerned about the August shooting death of a Fairfield man by police at Walmart, and called on the Ohio attorney general to release the video of the shooting.
Sharpton said authorities should release the video because they have already suggested that John Crawford III was pointing an air rifle at someone in the Beavercreek store, which he says has poisoned the minds of the public, some of whom will be on the grand jury that hears the case.
So the fair thing to do is put the tape out so when the grand jury meets, they walk in knowing at least what was and what wasnt on the tape, said Sharpton, a MSNBC host and civil rights activist. I come to Central State tonight to say to the attorney general, lets go to the tape.
Attorney General Mike DeWine has repeatedly said he will not release the tape before a trial.
I think that it is playing with dynamite, frankly, to release that tape at this point, DeWine said last month. And I think the dynamite simply is that it blows up and you cant get a fair trial. Thats what we worry about.
Speaking to about 850 students, faculty and community members, Sharpton said he was alarmed by the beating and killing of multiple black people at the hands of police nationwide within a period of weeks, including 22-year-old Crawford.
He said he does not know whether police acted appropriately or not in each of the cases.
But he said it is worrisome that police unions deny wrongdoing in every single case where police kill and injure people.
He called the Crawford case a public concern, but noted the grand jury hearing is private. He said showing the tape will end speculation and arguments about what led to Crawfords death on Aug. 5.
Sharpton also spoke about the importance of not letting anger and hardship paralyze people and make them feel they cannot make a difference.
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That was essentially the question needing answered when the library board and Creston City Council met in joint session earlier this week at Gibson Memorial Library.
Now that Lincoln School is off the agenda, we need some direction from city council, said Ann Coulter, library board president. We need to know what your goal is for this library and where do you see the future.
Coulter reiterated to the council Monday that space at Gibson Memorial remains inadequate for modern times, specifically citing lack of space for book storage and meeting areas. Coulter said of the 41 Iowa communities similar in population to Creston there are only four libraries smaller than ours.
Gibson Memorial currently has just less than 8,000 square feet.
Wintersets city library has 17,400 square feet of space while Red Oak has 11,525 square feet of space.
Dave Koets, ward 5 city councilman, said the council and library board need to come up with a plan that the community will get behind and can gather around 75 percent support.
Creston Mayor Warren Woods said his personal opinion is to keep the library in uptown Creston and possibly expand onto Gibson Memorial. Woods told the library board hed get a composite feel from the council and have a written recommendation to them by the end of the month.
The library board and council are discussing other possibilities to expand library services now because the Lincoln School property was sold to Seldin Company of Omaha, Neb., for $10,000 in August.
Prior to the sale, the library board and their marketing consultant Mandy Kolesik of Lamoni were raising funds to transform the 17,000 square-foot Lincoln School building into the citys new library.
The sale squashed those plans.
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