Biography for
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Date of Birth

3 October 1954, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr.

Nickname

Rev.

Spouse

Kathy Jordan

(31 October 1980 - present) (separated) 2 children

Trivia

He is the basis for the character "Reverend Bacon" in the novel and film The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

Introduced Michael Jackson at James Brown's funeral, telling the crowd: "I don't care what the media says tonight, James Brown wanted Michael Jackson with him here today. He said ... 'I love Michael.' He said, 'Tell him don't worry about coming home. They always scandalize those that have the talent." (30 December 2006).

His ancestors were owned by relatives of the late Senator Strom Thurmond.

Son of Rev. Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. (born in Florida, circa 1926, living in Orlando, Florida, in 2004) and wife Ada (born 1925).

Of Native American descent specifically Cherokee.

Personal Quotes

"The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen." - At the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

"We are the royal family of the planet. We are the original man. We gazed into the stars and wrote astrology. We had a conversation and that became philosophy. God is on our side." (speaking about black people at rally in Crown Heights in 1991)