" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans played the Reverend Al Sharpton and the Minister Louis Farrakan respectively.

The incident was an international news event that brought Reverend Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to the community and inspired the 1995 book Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town, by Mike Kelly.

At the same time, the Reverend Al Sharpton staged a counter-protest over the presence of the Klan.

A mock funeral presided over by the Reverend Al Sharpton was done for the label name change.

The funeral, presided by Reverend Al Sharpton, took place in Gardena, California eight days after her death.

These positions prompted harsh criticism of him from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and many African-American leaders, particularly the Reverend Al Sharpton.

The phrase ' Rev Al is a racist ' was made # 1 on Google Trends for 07-08-09 due to the controversial comments made by Reverend Al Sharpton during Michael Jackson's Memorial Service.

The Los Angeles group splintered in late 2000 when longtime leader Reverend Al declared a " bold new direction " for the branch and allegedly joined an Orthodox Christian community out of guilt over the deaths of two young Cacophonists who reportedly died in a drunken post-event car accident ( though one of the men eventually turned out to be completely fictitious, and the other, Peter " Mr. Outer Space " Geiberger, was discovered some months later, alive and well and quite amused at tumult resulting from his ' death '.

") In 2005 Reverend Al resurfaced as Dr. A. P.

The political protests headed by the Reverend Al Sharpton have been described as militant in nature in The Washington Post.

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

The character of the Reverend Bacon is considered by many to be based on the Reverend Al Sharpton and / or Jesse Jackson, who have both campaigned under the banner of eliminating racism, but whose methods have come under fire in recent years.

On Saturday July 23, 1977 he engaged in a ( debate ) public forum discussion with Reverend Al Sampson, pastor of the Fernwood Methodist Church in Chicago, on Images in Religion and Racism.

* January 5 – Reverend Al Sharpton of New York announces his intention to run for the Democratic nomination.

In the wake of this criticism, Fulani moderated a " historic conference " on Black-Jewish relations, featuring the " Jewish Marxist " Newman dialoguing with activist Reverend Al Sharpton.

Over the course of the campaign he was endorsed by Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards, as well as Howard Dean, Reverend Al Sharpton, the Working Families Party and former Mayor David Dinkins.

: If anyone doubted the hapless nature of Ferrer's campaign they had only to watch his ads featuring the rotund Reverend Al Sharpton salsa dancing.

On September 10, Reverend Al Sharpton endorsed Ferrer.

The accusations soon earned her notoriety, which was inflamed by Brawley's advisers ( including the Reverend Al Sharpton and attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason ), the statements of various public officials, and intense media attention.

A variety of other collaborators, including the Reverend CinoEvil, Al Okada, Gary Dutch, Geoff Walton, Steve Clarkson, Mike Armstrong, Nathan Lawr, Don Pyle and Michelle McAdorey, have contributed to individual albums.

There are those within the community who take a different position, notably the late Coretta Scott King and the Reverend Al Sharpton, the latter of whom, when asked in 2003 whether he supported gay marriage, replied that he might as well have been asked if he supported black marriage or white marriage.

One character appears in solo in one monologue, with two characters, The Reverend Al Sharpton and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, appearing in two monologues each.

The Reverend Al Sharpton: Well-known African-American New York activist and minister.

The Reverend Al Sharpton: He explains that he promised James Brown he would always wear his hair straightened and that it was not due to anything racial, just strictly based on friendship and promises.

During her 1997 campaign, she was nearly forced into a Democratic primary runoff with Reverend Al Sharpton, but avoided it by receiving 40 % of the vote during a recount.

Reverend Thomas Smith and Humfrey Wanley undertook the task of cataloguing the Cotton library, in which the Nowell Codex was held.

Richard Lovelace's mother was also the daughter of Anne Sandys and the granddaughter of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester ( 1559 – 1570 ), Bishop of London ( 1570 – 1576 ), and the Archbishop of York ( 1576 – 1588 ).

The next day Jefferson's funeral was held, performed by Reverend Charles Clay.

The first town meeting was held on November 19, 1778, at which the Reverend Enoch Hale, brother of American spy Nathan Hale, was chosen to be the town's first minister

A Sermon preached at the General Ordination held by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, on Sunday, December 23, 1866, by Francis Fulford.

Stone disbelieved the completeness of their offer but her close friend Reverend Antoinette Brown went to the men's convention to test its mettle ; she held delegate credentials from two temperance groups, and intended to ask that her credentials be accepted at which point she wanted to take the floor, briefly thank the body for now accepting women, and withdraw back to her pro-woman friends.

When he eventually did, Reverend John Strachan ( who held no official position other than Rector of York at the time ) first brusquely tried to force him to sign the articles for capitulation on the spot, then accused Chauncey to his face of delaying the capitulation to allow the American troops licence to commit outrages.

Services were held there under the auspices of Reverend Robert Ratcliff until 1688, when King's Chapel was built.

A handful of border parishes remained in the Church of England and so were exempt from disestablishment, It has proved possible for a cleric of the Church in Wales to come to occupy the See of Canterbury, and the current archbishop, the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, is Welsh and originally held posts in the Church in Wales-in fact he was the Archbishop of Wales before his appointment to Canterbury.

They plot to seize the Golden Lion Throne by breeding a man-worm, known as the Emperor Worm, and then fusing it with the Water of Life, mercilessly taken from the Lady Elara — who was held prisoner by the Reverend Mother ( in truth a Tleilaxu Face Dancer ) since the beginning of the game — giving the Worm almost god-like powers.

In 1832, for example, the meeting was held in Oxford, chaired by Reverend Dr William Buckland.

On 5 September 1932 Reverend Asmund held the first lecture in theology.

Since Reverend Lothrop used the front room of the house for public worship, another distinction of the Sturgis Library is that it is the oldest structure still standing in America where religious services were regularly held.

If there was any justification for this departure from convention, it lay in the fact that most people previously appointed to the position already held a formal title – such as a British knighthood or peerage, or a military rank – whereas Hollingworth's previous style, " The Most Reverend ", derived from his former position as the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and was considered inappropriate for a person holding an official position in a country which maintains a formal separation between church and state.

As the press now focused on the primaries in New York and Wisconsin, which were both to be held on the same day, Brown, who had taken the lead in polls in both states, made a serious gaffe: he announced to an audience of various leaders of New York City's Jewish community that, if nominated, he would consider the Reverend Jesse Jackson as a vice-presidential candidate.

* 1967 – Reverend Lord Donald Soper became President of the League a position held for 30 years, until his death in 1997.

MC5 performed a set before the 1968 Democratic Convention held at International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois where an infamous riot subsequently broke out between police and students protesting the recent assassination of The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Vietnam War.

Services were held there under the auspices of Reverend Robert Ratcliff until 1688, when King's Chapel was built.

At the State Fair held in Elmira in September 1855, Reverend Augustus W. Cowles visited the college campus.

She later married her prison minister, the Reverend Dana Lane Brown, and held her Christian wedding ceremony inside the prison.

The first Christian service at Koputai was held by the Reverend James Watkin, the Wesleyan missionary at Waikouaiti, in 1842.

The see is currently held by the Most Reverend George Stack, 7th Archbishop of Cardiff, who was appointed by the Holy See on 19 April 2011 and installed at St David's Cathedral, Cardiff on 20 June 2011.

When Annapolis was captured, one of the chaplains, the Reverend John Harrison, held a service of thanksgiving with the Reverend Samuel Hesker, the chaplain of the Marines, preaching the sermon.