Rev. Sharpton Opens Mayoral Campaign
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The Rev. Al Sharpton launched a long-odds mayoral campaign, denouncing Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as an enemy of the poor and working people. Addressing hundreds of chanting supporters in Harlem, Sharpton, 42, said the Republican mayor’s policies have divided the city. In 1987, Sharpton took up the cause of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who claimed she was kidnapped and raped by a gang of white men.
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