Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings.
Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them.
His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change."
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| 1 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021) | Self | 7 | |
| 2 | The First Wave (2021) | Self (archive footage) | 8 | |
| 3 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) | Self - Minister & Activist | - | - |
| 4 | Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020) | Self | 7.5 | |
| 5 | The Black Godfather (2019) | Self | 5 | |
| 6 | Get Me Roger Stone (2017) | Self (archive footage) | 5.3 | |
| 7 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014) | Self | 5.5 | |
| 8 | The Central Park Five (2012) | Self (archive footage) | 7.5 | |
| 9 | Good Hair (2009) | Self | 8 | |
| 10 | Madea Goes to Jail (2009) | Self | 7.2 | |
| 11 | Street Fight (2005) | Self | - | - |
| 12 | The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005) | - | - | - |
| 13 | Mr. Deeds (2002) | The Rhyme Master | 6.5 | |
| 14 | Bamboozled (2000) | Himself | 6 | |
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