I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
AL SHARPTONMy dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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