Sharpton Joins Call for Boycott of KFC
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The Rev. Al Sharpton has joined PETA in calling for a boycott of fast-food chain KFC, in a new TV and radio campaign.
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The morning 23-year-old Sean Bell was shot to death by police, his grieving relatives did something that has become almost routine in such cases: They called the Rev. Al Sharpton. Within hours, the longtime civil rights activist had consoled relatives, held two news conferences, and begun organizing a community rally for the next day.
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Union leader to ask members to ignore calls for an academic boycott of Israel.
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An American animal rights activist dressed as a crippled chicken fell foul of Egyptian police on Saturday after staging a protest in front of the central Cairo branch of the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, who urged the Imus' firing, wouldn't object if the radio personality returned to the airwaves. "He has a right to make a living," he said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
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Focus on the Family founder James C. Dobson and other conservative Christian leaders are calling for the National Association of Evangelicals to silence or fire an official who has urged evangelicals to take global warming seriously.
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Animal-rights activists demand a boycott of a Toronto screening of a film about killing a cat.
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LAGOS  - The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and a coalition of civil society groups on Monday stepped up efforts to whip up support for a planned general strike, called to protest rising fuel prices in the oil-rich west African country.
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A black congressman who claims he was racially profiled by Chicago police last month pushed for legislation Thursday that would ban the practice.
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Civil rights leaders called Tuesday for a march on the Justice Department and an economic boycott next month because they believe the federal government has been sluggish in dealing with hate crimes.
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One of the biggest critics of Black Entertainment Television says she will make a public apology Friday to Debra L. Lee, the networkâs chairwoman and chief executive, for supporting a protest, right, outside Ms. Leeâs home in Washington. The cyberspace mea culpa comes from Gina McCauley, a lawyer whose site WhatAboutOurDaughters.blogspot.com has admonished BET for misogynistic and racially insensitive programming. But Ms. McCauley said on Thursday that the five months of protests led by a group calling itself Enough Is Enough now lacked specificity and impact. âI thought this was more like the Montgomery bus boycott, but going into the sixth month, this looks more like the Salem witch trials or âThe Scarlet Letter,âÂ â Ms. McCauley said in an e-mail message. The protests are led by Baptist ministers who say that BET broadcasts music videos that degrade women and black and Latino men. After focusing on Ms. Lee, the protest rallies spread to the Upper East Side home of Philippe Dauman, the president and chief executive of Viacom, which owns BET. The Rev. Delman L. Coates, pastor of the Mount Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md., and the protest organizer, said on Thursday that the rallies brought attention and were one weapon in their battle.
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A group based in Tupelo is one of two organizations calling for a boycott of some Procter &amp; Gamble products because of the company&#39;s stand on a political issue in its home town, Cincinnati.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Tuesday that the recalls of tainted Chinese products were causing fear among U.S. consumers. He called on China to take bold moves to address that and other economic problems facing the two countries.
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The Association of Flight Attendants, representing workers at United Airlines, US Airways Group Inc. and 24 other carriers, plans to call for a nationwide strike if any
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K-mart has called upon a former executive in the fast food trade to be its new CEO and president. Aylwin Lewis spent 13 years with Yum, which is the parent of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC.
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A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.
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University of Miami linebacker Darryl Sharpton was eating alone in a campus dining hall when he got a call from defensive coordinator Randy Shannon telling him to rush to the Hecht Athletic Center. The redshirt freshman had gotten the same call from Shannon before; usually it meant the coach wanted to go over some plays with ...