Stacy Abrams

WATCH: Al Sharpton Goes One On One With Stacey Abrams

Rev. Al Sharpton sits down with Stacey Abrams, former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia, to discuss what she’s doing now, and what her future holds and the three biggest things she would campaign on, if she runs again in the future.

Jesse Louis Jackson is Our Civil Rights Icon

Jackson changed the way that African American people saw ourselves politically. Before him, we thought we could not make a difference. Because of him, we know that we can. Before him, we did not believe, in his words, that “the hands that picked peaches could pick Presidents.”

Breaking the Gubernatorial Glass Ceiling

In the 240-year history of the United States, four African American men have presided as the chief executive of a state or commonwealth. Only two were elected in their own right – Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, in 2006, and Douglas Wilder of Virginia, in 1989. David Paterson of New York was elevated to the office upon the resignation of Eliot Spitzer in 2008