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The Rev. Al Sharpton and his organization, the National Action Network, will be leading a number of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day festivities in New York City this weekend.

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On Monday morning, January 16, Sharpton will be joined by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy for a prayer breakfast called “King, Don’t Just Celebrate, Emulate.” Radio One CEO Alfred C. Liggins III is scheduled to present Gordy with a service award. [EDITOR'S NOTE: NewsOne is owned by Radio One]

And later that day, the National Action Network will be hosting a public policy forum entitled “What Would Dr. King Say, What Would Dr. King Do About The Culture Of Gun Violence?”

More details and live streams will be available on the National Action Network website.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    I like to emulate him ONLY…if he was only ALIVE right now….

  • Anonymous

    So-called Reverend Fried Dyed & Laid to the Side is only interested in emulating HIMSELF, as usual.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Aceman52/ Aceman52

    Why is this perm wearing fool headlining a MLK event?? He has drifted so far from the ideals of Dr King, its pathetic. Sharpton is a self serving hypocrite that should not be in charge of a bake sale much less a MLK event

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JI3QN2SAWGME3CUQSVQ43FXZIU Eric

    Tavis Smiley is declared out and Rev. AL Sharpton is now in. Now ten years ago if that was told to me I then would’ve ranted in response,”F**K OUTTA HERE! And why not? He showed up in the morning shows to debate the issues-still do, he does his own radio show” Keep it real” on the internet and on limited AM stations, but he stays at it. And at 6:00pm he does his highly rated Politics nation on MSNBC. That even made me say WTF is this? But I never miss it. If any of you agree with what I’m getting at, you know that this once overweight fella, is a workhorse for a topic of discussion that regards the black community. Can’t deny him that. And for all the Reverend AL haters I say this. So what he was once a polarizing figure who got stabbed and met with his assaulter to forgive him. Would you?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Don’t celebrate, emulate? Ok, why don’t we have a ANTI-WAR demonstration or is he waiting for a Republicann to be elected to all of a sudden take this stand again?

  • http://twitter.com/pblkbrothers Positive Brothers

    most of the people who have negative opinions about this man don’t or won’t do anything themselves to help their neighbor let alone the black community – they’re just “talking loud, and sayin nothing”

  • Anonymous

    Rev. Al Sharpton, obama JUNK YARD DOG???????

    or down low BI@#TCH??????

    Barack Obama’s presence in the White House is bad for Black people’s mental health!!!!!!!!!!

    The highest rate of black unemployment in the history of this country has occurred under the First Black President Obama Administration

    We can ALL agree that the First Black President hasn’t said one damn word about it!!!!!!!!!!

    We can also agree there are still Obama black fools defending the man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    who has ignored them since the day he was sworn in

    Go figure!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    MLK would not be happy with this materialistic bullshyt!

    He would want Black people to STAY AT HOME and teach their children, versus running to some monument that was built by an asian!

    Target is sponsoring this event, but continue to discriminate against Black employees! What kind of shyt is this? King would rather for us to BOYCOTT these crackers, than support them. Most negro amerikkkans are not familiar with the REAL KING, who was a Rebel. They don’t play his speeches when he talks against the injustices of white amerikkka. IT’S ALWAYS THE “I HAVE A DREAM” speech, which was written by a khazar!!! This is why you cannot purchase this speech on-line. They (khazars) want you to spend that money for this speech!

    The only reason caucasoids celebrate MLK’s birthday is because of MONEY! The majority of negroids are going to be in caucasoid establishments, giving them their money, while they are continuously beng discriminated against.

    King was getting ready to join forces with Malcolm X because he saw, that integrating with our enemies was not working! This is why the government murdered him. He also had Black agents among him, who wanted him dead, also! JJ is the initials. How come he’s not in on the birthday celebration?

    CAN YOU IMAGINE, IF MALCOLM X AND KING WOULD’VE HAVE UNITED?

    WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS ECONOMIC BULLSHYT CONDITION WE ARE IN!

    I’M TIRED OF HEARING, “WE CAME ALONG WAY, BUT WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO”. FUK THAT!

    “WHAT DO YOU WANT…FREEDOM, WHEN DO YOU WANT IT….NOW”

    IT’S TIME TO STAND UP BLACK PEOPLE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    How can these two sell-out negroids speak for King?

    Berry Gordy sold his empire to caucasoids and Sharpton is a buffer for them!

    Would King embrace negroids like these?

    HELL NAW!

  • Anonymous

    lol

  • Anonymous

    Keep the sheep dreaming and hoping for the future,living the good life now does not matter,meanwhile whites in power live like Gods on the earth,the masses live the suckers dream of cookies and cream pie in the sky when you die doctrine of the falling angels.

  • http://profiles.google.com/gokusc5 Joe Smith

    The Missing Quote from the Dr. King Memorial…

    Dr. King became a very vocal critic of the Vietnam war

    “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own Government…I cannot be silent.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    While the insiders in Washington parse the meaning of the paraphrased words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding his own epitaph, his true legacy – the one that many believe led to his murder – has been whitewashed from the King Memorial entirely.

    Speaking at the Riverside Church Church in New York City, exactly one year – to the day – before he was shot and killed in Memphis, Dr. King announced that he was expanding his focus on America’s national shame of segregation to include its international crime of war on the people of Vietnam:

    “(I)n the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers, (a)s I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov c**ktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — ‘what about Vietnam?’ They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”

  • http://profiles.google.com/gokusc5 Joe Smith

    The Missing Quote from the Dr. King Memorial…

    Dr. King became a very vocal critic of the Vietnam war

    “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own Government…I cannot be silent.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    While the insiders in Washington parse the meaning of the paraphrased words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding his own epitaph, his true legacy – the one that many believe led to his murder – has been whitewashed from the King Memorial entirely.

    Speaking at the Riverside Church Church in New York City, exactly one year – to the day – before he was shot and killed in Memphis, Dr. King announced that he was expanding his focus on America’s national shame of segregation to include its international crime of war on the people of Vietnam:

    “(I)n the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers, (a)s I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov c**ktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — ‘what about Vietnam?’ They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    HERE’S THE PROOF!

    CHECK:

    EEOC sues Target for bias
    Says it discriminated against blacks

    By JIM SMITH

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contends that Target Corp., the nationwide retail chain with more than 1,000 stores, has engaged in racial discrimination against black workers at one area shop.

    In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Philadelphia, the EEOC is seeking up to $300,000 in damages from Target, based in Minneapolis.

    The money damages would compensate former and current black workers at the store in Springfield, Delaware County.

    The EEOC also seeks a court order barring future discrimination at the store on Baltimore Pike.

    The suit contends that the store’s manager, Jeff Barnes, who is white, created a “hostile work environment” for black employees.

    Corporate executives allegedly took no action, despite complaints from Barnes’ former top assistant, Michael Hill, who is black.

    Barnes yesterday said he was unable to talk with this reporter about the EEOC’s lawsuit.

    Target said in a statement yesterday that it “is disturbed by the baseless lawsuit claiming race discrimination brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Target intends to vigorously defend itself against the allegations, brought on behalf of one individual and some ill-defined group.

    “Target is disappointed that the EEOC chose to take this action in the midst of informal negotiations, especially since both are required by law to try and resolve this matter, without the need for litigation. Instead of engaging in serious attempts to resolve this matter, the EEOC repeatedly refused to provide Target with information concerning its claims and repeatedly refused to meet with Target in person.”

    Barnes allegedly told Hill, 31, of Wyncote, who was training to be a store manager, “We will never put a black person in the store-management position.”

    Barnes also allegedly made “racially insensitive comments” to Hill, “including but not limited to ‘black women are the lowest form of life… ‘ and that his mother used to work with black people and she referred to them as ‘lazy.’ ”

    “Incredibly,” the EEOC lawsuit asserts, the chain’s district manager refused to transfer Hill to another store, even after Hill was hospitalized for chest pains “due to the stress of the [work] environment.”

    Instead, district manager Craig Snyderman allegedly told Hill “that he should not take Barnes’ statements ‘so literally.’

    “He further stated ‘what you have to understand is that sometimes people say these things, and that doesn’t mean they are racists.’ ”

    Finally offered a “demotion” to another store, Hill left the company a year ago.

    Other black workers told the EEOC that Barnes had “treated white employees more favorably than black employees,” that he had “verbally abused” black workers and that several blacks had quit rather than work for Barnes.

    One black female said that Barnes’ “verbal berating of her in the presence of her co-workers was so outrageously embarrassing that she left the store crying hysterically and never returned.”

    NEGROIDS ARE STILL SLAVES IN 2012!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/itilcobit/ itilcobit

    Is this a joke?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    No, seriously, Seaskillit…..rather HIM then the PHONIES roaming out there NOW ;)……..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    C’mon….you can find BETTER people than those two…….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CT4FBTGA7N2T5KSCNOKYYMOOM whowantz2kno

    lol….Sharpton just loves MLK day. It’s like his own personal tax refund. This is the one dude since the assassination of King, that makes hands down, THEE most money off Dr. King’s name. Hilarious and shameful all at once…..

  • Anonymous

    Oh, okay…seriously, I thought you were making a funny…At least, that’s how I took it and I tend to have a macbre sense of humor…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/swampthing49/ swampthing49

    btw!!! did’nt mr sharpton try out for the james brown band or was he the president of his fan club????

  • Anonymous

    If someone disagrees with Sharpton is that person negative? I do a lot for my community. I dont agree with his methods. The time, energy, and money spent on marching could be better served using economic boycotts. Why not use the platform that God has blessed him with, to uplift black businesses. That way we can create our own jobs. No one will give you a job for marching. The march only benefits the organizations that promote the march as well as give a high profile to certain people. We are the only group of people begging someone to hire us. The unemployment rate for blacks increased during the last month, while it decreased for the rest of the nation. Instead of marching against voter ID, lets use the resources to get our people ID. If the government told every black person that we would get a check for $50,000 for repairations, but the only way you can get it is with government issued ID, people would go get what was required. I like Sharpton and I listen to his radio show and rush home to watch the tv show. I just think in order for us to get out of this condition we need to move away from marching and go more towards economic protest and boycotts.

  • Anonymous

    If someone disagrees with Sharpton is that person negative? I do a lot for my community. I dont agree with his methods. The time, energy, and money spent on marching could be better served using economic boycotts. Why not use the platform that God has blessed him with, to uplift black businesses. That way we can create our own jobs. No one will give you a job for marching. The march only benefits the organizations that promote the march as well as give a high profile to certain people. We are the only group of people begging someone to hire us. The unemployment rate for blacks increased during the last month, while it decreased for the rest of the nation. Instead of marching against voter ID, lets use the resources to get our people ID. If the government told every black person that we would get a check for $50,000 for repairations, but the only way you can get it is with government issued ID, people would go get what was required. I like Sharpton and I listen to his radio show and rush home to watch the tv show. I just think in order for us to get out of this condition we need to move away from marching and go more towards economic protest and boycotts.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    Just as there are self hatin fools like you and your ass sniffers who can’t stop defendin krackas.
    Save it Rochester, mr benny dead.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CobaltBlu/ CobaltBlu

    Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    If someone disagrees with Sharpton is that person negative? I do a lot for my community. I dont agree with his methods. The time, energy, and money spent on marching could be better served using economic boycotts. Why not use the platform that God has blessed him with, to uplift black businesses. That way we can create our own jobs. No one will give you a job for marching. The march only benefits the organizations that promote the march as well as give a high profile to certain people. We are the only group of people begging someone to hire us. The unemployment rate for blacks increased during the last month, while it decreased for the rest of the nation. Instead of marching against voter ID, lets use the resources to get our people ID. If the government told every black person that we would get a check for $50,000 for repairations, but the only way you can get it is with government issued ID, people would go get what was required. I like Sharpton and I listen to his radio show and rush home to watch the tv show. I just think in order for us to get out of this condition we need to move away from marching and go more towards economic protest and boycotts.

  • Anonymous

    If someone disagrees with Sharpton is that person negative? I do a lot for my community. I dont agree with his methods. The time, energy, and money spent on marching could be better served using economic boycotts. Why not use the platform that God has blessed him with, to uplift black businesses. That way we can create our own jobs. No one will give you a job for marching. The march only benefits the organizations that promote the march as well as give a high profile to certain people. We are the only group of people begging someone to hire us. The unemployment rate for blacks increased during the last month, while it decreased for the rest of the nation. Instead of marching against voter ID, lets use the resources to get our people ID. If the government told every black person that we would get a check for $50,000 for repairations, but the only way you can get it is with government issued ID, people would go get what was required. I like Sharpton and I listen to his radio show and rush home to watch the tv show. I just think in order for us to get out of this condition we need to move away from marching and go more towards economic protest and boycotts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MQ5NBJIRRPO5P2F77R6X6QKDGI Symone

    Obama is the president.

    Obama is half African and half White and yet he led an invasion with “The Imperialist sponsored NATO against an African country (Libya) in which Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi was killed by people that The Imperialists armed.

    Now you have Black African Libyans who are now being imprisoned in camps as well as being killed and attacked just because racist Arabs hate them because Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi trusted them most and he surrounded himself with them.Yet this “fake Imperialist charlatan Obama” is sitting on his narrow behind being HELLA SILENT on their fate and yet he and the OTHER IMPERIALIST want you to believe they went to Libya for HUMANITARIAN reasons.Therefore all the people that try and compare that slick half White opportunist Obama to Martin Luther King really need their heads checked…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MQ5NBJIRRPO5P2F77R6X6QKDGI Symone

    Exactly!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    He’s trying awfully HARD to fill the shoes that MLK left behind…and the RESULT is:

    EPIC FAIL……..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    No, HOTTIE, I wouldn’t mind YOU , Dandegirl, Simplyblusher, Soulskilit,other brohams to kid…just the TROLLS and those who THINK they’re funny is the ones I like to MACBRE myself ;)…….

  • Anonymous

    “The highest rate of black unemployment in the history of this country has occurred under the First Black President Obama Administration.”

    Unemployment figures have only been tracked since 1972, so saying “in the history of this country” is hyperbole. Also, black unemployment was significantly hirer in 1984 reaching 23%. The black unemployment rate was historic lows during the Bush presidency and has tripled since Obama too over. The culprit, of course, is the global recession rather than the change in leadership.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KD3U2KZS3WVFGH6W5ZPOTDRAE TimH

    I agree. Seems like Al lost TOO much weight, too. Brother needs a pizza.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KD3U2KZS3WVFGH6W5ZPOTDRAE TimH

    Knee grow, why don’t you go to Africa and avenge Gaddafi’s death?

    What’s that? You like your life made safe by the White man in America too much, huh? Oh, and no welfare checks in Libya, huh??

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KD3U2KZS3WVFGH6W5ZPOTDRAE TimH

    Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton.

    At least he ain’t got no illegitimate kids like Jesse…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hellennyNY/ hellennyNY

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    Could he NOT find a censored version? Grandma: Is this how we are supposed to bond?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Can’t the argument be made that America is still the greatest purveyor of said evil today? If so, where are the opposing voices speaking in the spirit of Dr. King? Why are those who claim they represent him, silent on this issue?

    Great post!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Damn! when did he surpass Jesse?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    And as long as they have a charming black face pushing this “dream” black folks will remain asleep or at the very least, hitting th SNOOZE button.

    Back in the day we used to say, you Snooze, you lose!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Unfortunately, Kings image has been soiled years ago by these charlatans and to see Obama (The Eddie Long of Politics) out there speaking in his name and in his spirit tops it all off! Celebrate this man Dr. King by researching what his TRUE message. Here is a hint: it was NOT about little black boys and girls being able to play in sandlots with little white boys or girls. And it certainly wasn’t for a Black President to be elected to only carry on the same exploitative agenda as past White Presidents!

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