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“Make it known to all involved: Anything the Rev could do, he would do.”
“Jordan and his father had had their ups and downs.”
“He was representing relatives of Neely.”
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“A few days later, Sharpton’s people got a call from a lawyer named Lennon Edwards.”
“The Rev told the lawyers that if they wanted a chance at justice, they had to stop that narrative from congealing.”
“The death of George Floyd didn’t become The Murder of George Floyd by itself.”
“Copyright © 2026 by Anand Giridharadas Anand Giridharadas Eric Adams Jordan Neely Knopf Man in the Mirror religion Reverand Al Sharpton Anand Giridharadas ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Persuaders and Winners Take All, as well as The True American, and India Calling.”
“But that was because Crump called the Rev, not because the Rev called Crump.”
“Call the DA, an old friend in a city full of friends.”
“Now they needed a venue.”
“A young Black man had been choked to death on the subway.”
“It had happened in the days of slavery with the panic about revolts; it had happened during Jim Crow with the panic about Black men coming for white women; it had happened with the 1990s-era panic about young “superpredators” prowling America’s urban wastelands.”
““I come out of the urban swagger movement,” he said.”
““And I decided that I’m not only going to say something, I was going out front.”
“The Rev’s powers and platforms and friends still had their uses, though, as when the matter of the funeral arose.”
“It took shaping.”
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“Literary Hub » Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Anand Giridharadas on How the Reverend Al Sharpton Works to Shape Narratives of Justice Looking Into “Sharpton’s horizontally integrated machinery of justice seeking could be powerful.” Via Knopf Anand Giridharadas October 16, 2026 The Rev was downtown when he got the text.”
“Sure, they might have seen him standing beside a legal giant like Ben Crump, a friend, on TV.”
“The family was having trouble accessing the funds in the GoFundMe account, and the funeral director wanted his money.”
“And the resulting panic about disorder was then exploited to enable still more dehumanizing.”
“The Rev liked to think that, despite his nearly seventy years on the planet, he didn’t really belong to what he called “that old model, the old civil rights, Black church model.” The Rev spoke with the lawyers again.”