Sharpton for President’. That’s what the banners across Black America and beyond will be saying as the flamboyant and charismatic Rev Al Sharpton signals his intention to run for President of the United States. Sharpton is under no illusion of the enormous task ahead, but like other Black activists that have gone before him such as Ron Brown and Rev Jesse Jackson he knows that his presence in the presidential race will at the very least raise the profile of the Black vote and the issues of Black people. I met up with Rev Sharpton almost a year ago in...