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People arrive for the funeral for Andrew Brown Jr., Monday, May 3, 2021 at Fountain of Life Church in Elizabeth City, N.C. Brown was fatally shot by Pasquotank County Sheriff deputies trying to serve a search warrant. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Calls for justice at N.C. funeral of Andrew Brown Jr.

By BEN FINLEY and JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Rev. Al Sharpton eulogies Daunte Wright during funeral services at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Wright, 20, was fatally shot by a Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool)

Andrew Brown Jr. funeral set for Monday with Sharpton eulogy

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Daunte Wright's casket is removed from the hearse for funeral services behind an escort of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters at Shiloh Temple International Ministries in Minneapolis, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The 20-year-old Wright was killed by then-Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop on April 11. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Latest: Klobuchar seeks ‘true justice’ for Black Americans

By Associated Press

Rev. Al Sharpton to lecture at Tennessee State University

By Associated Press

The Rev. Al Sharpton listens during an interview at his office, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in New York. For more than three decades, Sharpton, 65, has been an advocate for Black American families seeking justice in the wake of violence that highlight systemic racism. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 9, 2020 file photo, the Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during the funeral for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church in Houston. A national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia. This comes amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans. Although many marchers will arrive via charter buses from surrounding communities on Aug. 28, the Rev. Al Sharpton will ask others to join satellite marches in states that are considered hot spots for COVID-19. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)

March on Washington reconfigured to comply with virus rules

By AARON MORRISON and ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2020 file photo, people march down the street towards the Georgia state Capitol to protest against the mistreatment of black people and to press for policy change, in Atlanta. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was created more than a century ago. But the hymn dubbed as the Black national anthem has resurrected a beacon of hope during recent nationwide protests. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ Black national anthem, embraced by protesters

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. - Associated Press

In this June 19, 2020, photo, people attend a peaceful rally in Chicago to mark Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ hymn ignites hope across nation

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. - Associated Press

The funeral home team pushes the casket of George Floyd into the hearse as the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, looks on after the funeral service for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool)

George Floyd laid to rest after emotionally charged ‘homecoming celebration’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file handout photo provided by Christopher Harris shows George Floyd. The message from protesters around the United States is that George Floyd is the latest addition to a grim roster of African Americans to be killed by police In demonstration after demonstration, protesters are carrying signs that include the names of other blacks whose lives ended violently in encounters with police. (Christopher Harris via AP, File)

Floyd mourned, celebrated as death used as call to action

By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

FILE - This June 23, 2019 file photo shows Al Sharpton presenting an award at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. Sharpton is working on a book meant to address what he calls an urgent moment in American history. Hanover Square Press announced Monday that the longtime civil rights activist's “Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads” is coming out Sept. 15.(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

New Al Sharpton book looks at America’s political crossroads

By Associated Press

(From right): James Blake, a former professional tennis player, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, testify during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices," in Rayburn Building on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) ** FILE **

Al Sharpton slams Dem debate: ‘I didn’t see anybody’ who could ‘take on Donald Trump’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

(From right): James Blake, a former professional tennis player, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, testify during the House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices," in Rayburn Building on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) ** FILE **

Al Sharpton: ‘We cannot say with any comfort’ that Trump won’t be reelected

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Orthodox Jewish men carry the casket with Mindel Ferencz who was killed in a kosher market that was the site of a gun battle in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Ferencz, 31, who with her husband owned the grocery store. The Ferencz family had moved to Jersey City from Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

National Action Network denounces N.J. official who called Jews ‘brutes’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate Former Vice President Joe Biden waves before a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Joe Biden, say it ain’t so

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times