Blake DowlingJanuary 18, 2020
8min297
Is this putting our best foot forward?
Tag: Al Sharpton
Blake DowlingJanuary 18, 2020
Sarah MuellerJanuary 12, 2020
4min674
FEA officials anticipate thousands will participate in Monday’s rally.
Jacob OglesNovember 4, 2018
4min370
The Rev. Al Sharpton travels to Miami today to promote the restoration of felons’ voting rights and rally voters to the polls. The noted civil rights voice and founding president of the National Action Network gets an early start today. He’ll be at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Miami Gardens for service at 7 a.m. Then […]
Jacob OglesAugust 5, 20186min484
Thousands gathered in Clearwater on Sunday as Rev. Al Sharpton called on justice for Markeis McGlockton, a father shot down last month after a dispute over a parking space. To cheers, Sharpton called on law enforcement to arrest shooter Michael Drejka. “Lock him up or give up your badge,” Sharpton said at the event Sunday. […]
Jacob OglesAugust 5, 2018
5min727
Gubernatorial candidates Andre Gillum and Jeff Greene both called for a full repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law during MSNBC interviews with Rev. Al Sharpton. “The fact that you have an individual who becomes judge, juror and executioner all in there own minds under the protection of the law in the United States is […]
A.G. GancarskiOctober 4, 2016
7min331
In the mayor’s office in Jacksonville’s city hall, there was a new addition this week: a portrait of former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown to hang next to the pictures of previous mayors. Brown, informed sources tell us, was not cooperative with the process: a rite of passage for former Jacksonville mayors, generally involving a painting paid […]
Mitch PerryAugust 18, 2016
6min178
There’s more news about the Affordable Care Act this week, and it ain’t that good. Aetna announced Tuesday it would be pulling out of Florida and 10 other states next year, giving those on the government plan less options for choice here in the Sunshine State. There have always been problems with the ACA, and […]
Mitch PerryAugust 17, 2016
5min264
Unlike that other solar power constitutional amendment that Floridians will decide on in the fall, seemingly everyone supports Amendment Four, the only ballot measure on this month’s primary ballot. Virtually everyone that is, except Al Sharpton. The New York City-based activist and MSNBC host bashed the measure while making an appearance last week in Opa-Locka. Amendment […]
Associated PressFebruary 11, 2016
7min219
Grudge match. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get back in the debate ring Thursday night with an increasingly bitter family score to settle. The debate comes just 48 hours after Sanders’ victory over Clinton in the New Hampshire primary by 22 percentage points, a jagged pill made more so because she lost […]
Associated PressFebruary 10, 2016
7min176
Hoping for survival in the South, a muddled field of Republican presidential contenders descended Wednesday on South Carolina, no closer to clarity about who can stand between Donald Trump and their party’s nomination. Not me, Carly Fiorina announced, dropping out of the campaign. A Chris Christie spokeswoman said his race was over, too. But a […]