NEW YORK — President Joe Biden virtually addressed the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference on Friday, telling a sympathetic crowd “we’ve kept our promises” as he ramps up efforts to energize Black voters who will be vital to his reelection bid this fall. Addressing several hundred attendees at the annual National Action Network Convention in New York, Biden ticked through a long list of what he said were some of his administration’s key accomplishments for Black Americans. He detailed providing federal public works funding to reconnect city neighborhoods that...

Roughly 200 mourners gathered Monday, Nov. 20, for the funeral of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old father killed by an off-duty Jackson, Mississippi, police officer in March. Rev. Al Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at New Horizon Church International, pledged to lead the fight for justice against anyone involved in the alleged cover-up of Wade’s death, as reported by WLBT. Sharpton and the National Action Network covered Wade’s funeral expenses. “His life mattered to his mama and daughters, and we’re going to make it matter all over this country,” Sharpton said....

According to Jackson, Miss., officials, an off-duty police officer struck and killed Wade, 37, while he was walking along a six-lane highway in March. But they failed to notify Wade’s family of his death for several months and buried him in a pauper cemetery near the Hinds County Penal Farm. “What happened to Dexter is a disgrace, a national outrage, and should be treated as such. It is time for the mayor and the city council to stand up for Dexter,” Sharpton said Monday (Nov. 20) at the New Horizon...

Rev. Al Sharpton says the guilty plea of one of the former Memphis policemen accused in the killing of Tyre Nichols is one more serious move toward getting justice for his family. On Thursday (Nov. 2) Desmond Mills, Jr., admitted to “one count of deprivation of rights under color of law after using excessive force and failing to intervene and one count of witness tampering,” in connection with an attempted cover-up of the fatal beating of Nichols at the hands of police on Jan.7. After an internal investigation, each officer...

The state funeral and memorial service for New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Gov. Phil Murphy and the Rev. Al Sharpton will both give eulogies. Long lines of mourners paid respect to the path-breaking elected leader during two days that her body laid in state. A gold hearse with the state seal on its door carried her flag-draped coffin to the rotunda at the state capitol on Thursday. Then, her coffin was brought...