Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...

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The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump’s rhetoric and stances on race and civil rights during his third presidential campaign.

Civil Rights Leaders and King Family Mark MLK Day as a Special Call to Action as Trump Takes Office WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United ...