Cartoon

June, 1997

Al Sharpton has a DreamThe Reverend Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. adjusted his chalk-striped, double-breasted suit and ran a thin comb through his shoulder-length, slowly graying mane. It was a Friday evening and the minister, activist and candidate for mayor of New York City was in his Harlem headquarters, a sprawling building called the Hall of Justice. Hundreds of New Yorkers were waiting to hear him speak in an auditorium down the hall. It was going to be a long night, and Sharpton had only a...