Reverend Al Sharpton: What did Obama do for the Black Community? (2017) | UCD L&H

Baptist minister, civil rights activist and radio talkshow host, Al Sharpton has been awarded the UCD James Joyce Award by the UCD Literary and Historical Society at University College Dublin.
He received the award at an event in the Fitzgerald Debating Chamber on the University College Dublin campus where he took part in a live conversation and questions and answers session with students.
According to MSNBC, Rev. Sharpton, who founded the civil rights organisation National Action Network, has "over 40 years of experience as a community leader, politician, minister and advocate" and "is one of America's most-renowned civil rights leaders".
Describing Rev. Sharpton, NPR says "[he] has spent nearly all of his adult life in the spotlight, earning both praise and condemnation".
Previous recipients of the UCD James Joyce Award include: Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney; and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
The award is named after University College Dublin's best-known graduate, the author of Ulysses, James Joyce, who is one of the most influential writers of the early twentieth century.
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