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  • News

    May 23, 2000

    Is Sharpton Protecting Hillary?

    Grandpa Al and Reverend Al in Senate Race Endorsement Flap

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2008

    Sharpton to Lead Pray-In Protests Throughout City Today

    Grandpa Al and Reverend Al in Senate Race Endorsement Flap

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2008

    The Sean Bell Protests in the Papers: Peaceful and Orderly

    Grandpa Al and Reverend Al in Senate Race Endorsement Flap

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Caroline Kennedy's One-Stop Shopping Trip

    Grandpa Al and Reverend Al in Senate Race Endorsement Flap

  • News

    December 17, 2002

    Post–9-11 Civil Rights

    If You're Black, Who's Got Your Back?

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    New Year's Grief

    'Justified' Shootings Spotlight Police Policy Issues

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    We're Saving Our Own Lives

    Black activists will confront killer diseases at upcoming AIDS forum in Harlem

  • News

    January 25, 2000

    Reverend Norris's Big Mouth

    After a long-awaited showdown with Hillary Clinton, an ally of Al Sharpton triggers a vicious debate about guilt by association

  • News

    January 29, 2002

    Bloomberg’s Harlem House Call

    Détente Between City Hall and Sharpton?

  • News

    December 26, 2000

    Is Jesse for Sale?

    Jackson-Watchers Claim Wall Street Contributors Arranged His Phone Call to Bush

  • News

    August 11, 1998

    Full Court Press

    Stone-Deaf, Dumb as a Post, Blind as a Bat

  • Specials

    March 23, 1999

    Letters

    Stone-Deaf, Dumb as a Post, Blind as a Bat

  • News

    March 30, 1999

    Father of the Movement

    How Al Sharpton rose from 'racial arsonist' to racial healer, and changed New York City

  • News

    August 31, 1999

    Sexgate North

    Ready or Not, Here They Come

  • News

    November 9, 1999

    Bugging Out

    Pesticide Fighters Bite Back Over Mosquito Spraying

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Oh, God

    Why Religion Doesn't Have a Prayer in New York Politics

  • News

    November 7, 2000

    Nader Reaches Out to Sharpton and the Black Vote

    Green Party Candidate Starts Northeast Swing in Harlem

  • News

    November 14, 2000

    Campaign Classics

    Tales From the Trail About Green, Zogby, Powers, and Zuckerman

  • News

    November 28, 2000

    At Least One of Every 100 Votes in America Not Counted

    Sharpton Jumps In With Federal Suit

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Taking the Rap

    Are Civil Rights Leaders Frontin’ for Hip Hop Gangstas?

  • News

    May 1, 2001

    The 'Wrongs' of 'Mr. Civil Rights'

    Why Jesse Jackson's Political Comeback Seems Doomed

  • Specials

    June 5, 2001

    Letters

    Why Jesse Jackson's Political Comeback Seems Doomed

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    The Perils of Protest

    The Anti-Globalization Movement Alters Its Strategy

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    The Neverland Music Summit

    Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

  • News

    September 9, 2003

    Children Come Home to Roots

    March Has Strong Words for Rap Music and Gangsta Youth

  • News

    February 10, 2004

    We Need You

    It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

  • News

    June 1, 2004

    A Nation of Millions

    Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    N.Y.'s Power Couple

    Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

  • News

    June 29, 2004

    A Whiter Shade of Harlem

    They're building again in America's black mecca—but not necessarily with black labor

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    Sharpton Chronicles

    Black radio buries the Rev

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Father of the Movement

    How Al Sharpton rose from 'racial arsonist' to racial healer, and changed New York City

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    A New Century

    1996–2005: from Aids in Africa to 9-11, Clinton's blowjob to Cindy Sheehan

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    News' Juan Gonzalez: Sharpton Got a $500K Present

    The odd-ball marriage of Al Sharpton and schools chancellor Joel Klein -- who have been teaming up to tout their version of education reforms since last summer-- resulted in a sweet $500,000 wedding gift for Sharpton's National Action Network, reports the Daily News' indefatigable Juan Gonzalez this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Pols, Press Party with Sharpton and His Corrupt Network

    The governor of New York is having lunch today with a tax dodger who owes the state nearly a million dollars. The mayor is chowing down, too. Tomorrow the vice president will wrap his arms around the same celebrity cheat who stiffed the IRS for nearly $2 million. David Paterson, Mike Bloomberg and ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2007

    Rudy Redux

    Will we get another law-and-order mayor who decides on his own what the law is?

  • News

    July 3, 2001

    Jesse Jackson: The Desperate Hours

    Inside the Civil Rights Power Struggle

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Barrett: Al Sharpton Gets an Apology

    I owe Al Sharpton an apology. He was in rare form Monday night on NY1, ranting as if he had turned the clock back to his old sweat-suit days (NY1 actually ran classic footage of him in his favorite, all-black outfit). He took several runs at me during this extended interview and did manage to get on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Post: Sharpton to Pay $285K FEC Fine for 2004 Campaign Violations

    The Federal Election Commission has been on Reverend Al Sharpton's case for years, and this morning the Post reports that the Feds will soon announce a deal with the minister, whereby he will pay $285,000 in fines for illegal handling of funds in his hilarious 2004 Democratic Presidential campaign. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Sharpton Forced To Return Campaign Funds...To Himself

    By Jana KasperkevicNothing much surprises us anymore about the charmed life of Reverend Al Sharpton, but even he must have wondered in recent weeks just how he gets away with it all. Hanging at the White House with Mike Bloomberg. The governor, David Paterson, launching his comeback rally at Sharpto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Barrett: Andrew Cuomo Gets a Present From Steve Levy

    This news should calm down angry Andy​Andrew Cuomo got some great news yesterday with the announcement that Suffolk County executive Steve Levy may run for governor. Cuomo's onetime sidekick and running-mate Charlie King rushed to the op-ed op-ed pages of the New York Post to declare how gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Charlie King is New Democratic Attack Dog. Ruff!

    ​State Democrats today announced a new "truth squad" to contest any and all Republican fibs, and tapped new party executive director Charlie King as lead attack dog. King, who lost bids for statewide office (lieutenant governor 2002; attorney general 2006) and later worked for Al Sharpton's Na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Michael Steele's Latest Bondage Play: Hooking Up With Al Sharpton

    ​By Cat Contiguglia Michael Steele, the embattled head of the Republican National Committee, seems to be making a last ditch effort to make some friends -- any friends -- by hooking up with Al Sharpton. Steele, who has been the subject of intense criticism for irresponsible spending, includi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo and Black Voters -- The Key to his Father's Victory, Will They Help the Son?

    ​Having set the national stage for the Carl Paladino roll-out yesterday, with CNN citing the Times as their reason for interviewing him, the paper did a nosedive today on the Sienna and Marist polls that rebut the Quinnipiac numbers that were featured in a front page story the day before. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2010

    Tom DiNapoli's Appointment Logs: He's Just Too Nice a Guy

    ​Tom DiNapoli is too nice a guy. The state comptroller apparently can't say no to anyone who wants to meet with him, though he has a mixed record when it comes to delivering what his bellringers want. I've been reading half a foot of DiNapoli's appointment schedules from 2007 to now an ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2010

    Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting

    ​Tom DiNapoli is too nice a guy. The state comptroller apparently can't say no to anyone who wants to meet with him, though he has a mixed record when it comes to delivering what his bellringers want. I've been reading half a foot of DiNapoli's appointment schedules from 2007 to now an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Sharpton and NYPD Team Up to Buy Back Guns

    ​City Hall can't decide if it wants you to have guns or not! Police commissioner Ray Kelly and Reverend Al Sharpton had a press conference today, announcing a gun buyback program to take illegal guns off the streets...just weeks after Mayor Michael Bloomberg slashed the fee for a gun permit from $ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Obama in NYC With Al Sharpton: Student Loans Suck

    ​Amid desperate budget negotiations and a looming government shutdown, President Barack Obama came to New York City last night to speak at the twentieth-anniversary party for Al Sharpton's National Action Network. At the gala, Obama focused on the issue of education inequality, but only after ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 17, 2011

    Sharpton's Racket

    The man who will never be mayor could decide who the next one will be

  • Columns

    September 14, 2011

    Parading While Black

    After the arrest of a City Councilman, isn't it time to question the NYPD's crooked math?

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Mayor Mike Bloomberg Heckled At MLK Event

    Sam Levin​It wasn't exactly the warmest reception the mayor has ever received. Mike Bloomberg stopped by the House of Justice in East Harlem earlier today -- where apparently most local electeds that matter (or hope to matter) were making their MLK appearances. Folks in the audience packed ti ... More >>

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