I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
AL SHARPTONI think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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