Rev. Al Sharpton’s Birthday Plans Revealed: Starry L.A. Fundraiser to Fuel Get Out the Vote Efforts

Overlook Halloween, Rev. Al Sharpton has different plans this night.

The founder and president of the Nationwide Motion Community is internet hosting a starry seventieth party tonight in Century Metropolis, however quite than have the focus be on his milestone birthday, Sharpton and his crew have zeroed in on honorees (Smokey Robinson and Ken Sunshine) and a trigger (urging extra folks to get out and vote in Tuesday’s election).

Held at the Fairmont Century Plaza, the occasion will see lifetime achievement awards doled out to Robinson, a music legend who was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the Miracles, and Sunshine, a veteran public relations govt, strategist and political activist. Sunshine, who had a stint in politics early in his profession, based Ken Sunshine Consultants earlier than teaming with Shawn Sachs to launch the agency Sunshine Sachs, now generally known as Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.

Each might be in attendance together with a roster of boldfaced names like Magic and Cookie Johnson, Robert F. Smith, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Fabian Núñez, Antonio Villaraigosa, Sylvia Rhone and others. The fundraiser will serve to assist NAN’s non-partisan Get Out the Vote marketing campaign, which seeks to activate the org’s greater than 100 chapters on the significance of displaying up for the elections.

“I am honored to join a group of personal friends, who have long supported NAN, as we mark my 70th birthday this month,” Sharpton mentioned. “After a strong showing at the Triumph Awards in New York City last week, I know this event will help future NAN’s work to inform Black voters across the nation what’s at risk when they stay home and what’s possible when they turn out at the polls. I especially want to thank Magic Johnson and Robert F. Smith for putting this event together, as they have worked with us for decades on expanding business opportunities for Black and brown Americans.”

As Sharpton talked about, the L.A. occasion follows an analogous bash on the East Coast the place Gladys Knight, Robert De Niro, Wynton Marsalis and Carolyn “Cookie” Mason had been honored. In New York, Sharpton, whose precise birthday fell on Oct. 3, additionally mentioned the impression of the Triumph Awards from the podium.