Fried, Dyed & Laid To The Side: Al Sharpton’s Hair Over The Years

Let’s go back a little bit, in 1987-88, Sharpton was traveling around with a young woman named Tawana Brawley. Brawley, who was 15 at the time,  accused six, white men of raping her. After the assault Brawley’s body was found in a trash bag, with racial slurs written on her and covered in feces. Believing it was a legit social justice issues, Sharpton joined her in seeking punishment for these men. Though Brawley and her family claim the allegations are true, in ’88, a grand jury found that Brawley only made it appear as if she was involved in an attack. She, Sharpton and her other advisor were sued for defamation of character. Sharpton was ordered to pay one of the accused attackers $65,000, supporters, including Johnnie Cochran helped him pay the fee in 2001.

There are some who still believe Tawana was telling the truth. Regardless, Sharpton put in some real work getting people to pay attention to her story. You can see it evidenced her by the puffiness of his hair and the falling curls.