In 2009, the Federal Election Commission announced it had levied a fine of $285,000 against Sharpton's 2004 presidential campaign team for breaking campaign finance rules during his bid for President.

The 2004 presidential campaign of Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist from New York City, began with his expressed interest in May 2001. In August of that year, Sharpton announced the formation of an exploratory committee and began to campaign for the nomination of the Democratic Party .

Today, President Biden joined Reverend Al Sharpton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and the National Action Network in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Samuel L. Jackson spent his 74th birthday on Broadway was surprised with a cake by Rev. Al Sharpton during the show's curtain call.

Jan 21, 2025 · Al Sharpton, American civil rights activist, politician, and minister who founded the National Action Network (1991) and later hosted a news-and-opinion show on MSNBC. He sought the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2004. Learn more about his life and career.

Nov 13, 2024 · Rev. Al Sharpton plans to hold a rally in protest of President-elect Trump on inauguration day. Sharpton announced the rally on his MSNBC show, “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton,” on...

Apr 2, 2014 · Having known Donald Trump for the past three decades as a native New Yorker, Sharpton has become very critical of the billionaire who became president in 2016. In early November 2017,...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he will seek a second term in a private conversation at the White House last month, Sharpton informed his National Action Network...

Al Sharpton (Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr.) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, talk show host, and politician. He is the founder of the National Action Network. In 2004, he ran for the Democratic presidential candidacy in the United States. Sharpton is 67 years old as of 2021.

Sharpton, founder of the Harlem-based National Action Network, started to think about the possibility of running for president in the wake of the November 2000 presidential election; he was troubled by voter disenfranchisement.

Before Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected president of the United States in 2008, other African Americans attempted that feat. One of them was the Reverend Al Sharpton, who in 2004, declared himself a candidate for …