National Action Network

Thursday's Good News: Homicide/Shooting Rates Have Dipped In First Quarter Of The Year

Given that it's Thursday, which means it's one day closer to Friday, we figured that it's time to shine some light on the good news out there in the world. According to NYPD data released yesterday, the overall shootings and murder rates are down in New York City, with comparison to this time last ... More >>

The Next Mayor: An NYPD Still Outside the Law?

Fathers of Trayvon Martin and Ramarley Graham Speak on Eve of Protest March

"It's hard to imagine Father's Day without Trayvon," said Tracy Martin, "I want to stand for the million voiceless fathers that have lost their children."Just hours before Father's Day, the father of the young boy gunned down by George Zimmerman spoke somber words and held back tears in front of a c ... More >>

Mayor Mike Bloomberg Heckled At MLK Event

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 tightly into one l ... More >>

Parading While Black

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

Sharpton's Racket

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

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 >>

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 >>

Andrew Cuomo Goes to Albany, Where Lobbyists Are Waiting

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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' 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 >>

Caroline Kennedy's One-Stop Shopping Trip

The Sean Bell Protests in the Papers: Peaceful and Orderly

Sharpton to Lead Pray-In Protests Throughout City Today

Rudy Redux

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

Father of the Movement

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

A New Century

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

Sharpton Chronicles

Black radio buries the Rev

A Whiter Shade of Harlem

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

N.Y.'s Power Couple

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

A Nation of Millions

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

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

Children Come Home to Roots

March Has Strong Words for Rap Music and Gangsta Youth

New Year's Grief

'Justified' Shootings Spotlight Police Policy Issues

Post–9-11 Civil Rights

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

The Neverland Music Summit

Sharpton's Confab Charges Music-Money Apartheid

Bloomberg’s Harlem House Call

Détente Between City Hall and Sharpton?

The Perils of Protest

The Anti-Globalization Movement Alters Its Strategy

Jesse Jackson: The Desperate Hours

Inside the Civil Rights Power Struggle

Letters

The 'Wrongs' of 'Mr. Civil Rights'

Why Jesse Jackson's Political Comeback Seems Doomed

Is Jesse for Sale?

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

At Least One of Every 100 Votes in America Not Counted

Sharpton Jumps In With Federal Suit

Nader Reaches Out to Sharpton and the Black Vote

Green Party Candidate Starts Northeast Swing in Harlem

Oh, God

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

Is Sharpton Protecting Hillary?

Grandpa Al and Reverend Al in Senate Race Endorsement Flap

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

Bugging Out

Pesticide Fighters Bite Back Over Mosquito Spraying

Sexgate North

Ready or Not, Here They Come

Father of the Movement

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

Letters

Full Court Press

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