44 Facts About Shaun King

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Jeffery Shaun King was born on September 17,1979 and is an American writer and activist.

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Shaun King was raised in Kentucky and received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Shaun King founded a church in Atlanta in 2008 called Courageous Church, which he led for four years.

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Shaun King later received a master's degree from Arizona State University.

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In 2018, Shaun King co-founded the Real Justice PAC, and launched The North Star website.

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In 2020, Shaun King founded the non-profit group Grassroots Law Project.

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Shaun King has repeatedly faced accusations of fiscal mismanagement and of raising money from donors which does not reach its intended recipients.

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Jeffery Shaun King was born in Franklin, Kentucky and raised in Versailles, Kentucky.

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Shaun King attended Huntertown Elementary School and Woodford County High School.

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Shaun King has stated that he was the victim of racism and hate crimes while growing up in Kentucky.

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Shaun King told reporters that one day a pickup truck full of youths attempted to run him over with the vehicle on school property.

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Shaun King recalls that after reporting the incident to school authorities, the authorities protected the youths rather than punishing them.

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Shaun King later said that a second assault occurred, wherein "a dozen self-described 'rednecks'" beat him and the injuries caused him to miss a portion of two years of high school due to multiple spinal surgeries.

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Shaun King characterized the assault as a racially motivated hate crime.

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Shaun King attended Morehouse College, a private, historically black men's college in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in history.

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In 1999, Shaun King was elected president of the student government association.

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In 2018, Shaun King earned a master's degree in history from Arizona State University.

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Shaun King left teaching and worked as a pastor at Total Grace Christian Center in DeKalb County, Georgia.

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Shaun King made use of social media to recruit new members and was known as the "Facebook Pastor".

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In 2012, Shaun King resigned from the Courageous Church, citing personal stress and disillusionment.

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Shaun King has written extensively about his experiences as a biracial person, and has written about the Black Lives Matter movement, gaining prominence during the events following the shooting of Michael Brown.

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Shaun King wrote an article analyzing the Brown crime scene, and argued that the evidence suggested that officer Darren Wilson's life was not in danger during the shooting.

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Shaun King became a contributing blogger for the politically liberal website, the Daily Kos, in September 2014.

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On October 2,2015, Shaun King joined New York Daily News as a senior justice writer, where focused on reporting and commentary on social justice, police brutality and race relations.

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On December 28,2016, Cenk Uygur announced that Shaun King had been hired as a political commentator for The Young Turks.

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In 2019, Shaun King launched the crowdfunded website The North Star, calling it an online revival of the anti-slavery newspaper of the same name, and saying that he had the support of relatives of Frederick Douglass, the original paper's editor.

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Shaun King said he had been overzealous with the project and that he should have listened to advisors who told him that his plans for the site were too ambitious.

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Shaun King unilaterally disbanded the organization in the fall of 2016 to the surprise of many of the group's members.

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In September 2016, Shaun King proposed an Injustice Boycott for December of that year.

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In 2018, Shaun King co-founded Real Justice PAC, a political action committee to help elect prosecutors who support criminal justice reform at the county and city levels.

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The trooper arrested Dixon-Cole for drunk driving, and King based his accusation on statements she and her family made to King and Philadelphia-based lawyer S Lee Merritt.

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Shaun King deleted his social media posts after the body-cam video was released.

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Police credited Shaun King with providing a tip that helped lead them to suspect Eric Black Jr.

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On Twitter, Shaun King initially posted the mugshot of a white male, Robert Paul Cantrell, who he identified as involved in the shooting.

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Shaun King has repeatedly faced accusations from colleagues and fellow activists of raising money for unclear purposes, or overpromising results from fundraising.

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In 2011, Shaun King asked for donations to him online to climb the Seven Summits, but abandoned the effort only a few days into training.

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Shaun King has raised money for multiple causes incidents where the Black Lives Matter movement has been involved, including the shooting of Tamir Rice.

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Shaun King has been accused of raising funds for causes that were never received by those he was fundraising for, including at Justice Together after Shaun King abruptly closed the organization.

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On September 12,2019, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson wrote a lengthy article raising multiple concerns in regards to Shaun King, especially related to fundraising.

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Shaun King wrote an editorial explaining the purpose of taking legal action and addressed some specific critiques levied against him.

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In June 2020, Shaun King tweeted that statue, murals, and stained-glass windows depicting a white Jesus should be removed.

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Shaun King left the Democratic Party after the 2016 election, alleging corruption and lack of neutrality during the 2016 primaries.

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In 2018, Shaun King expressed disdain for Kamala Harris and said he did not intend to support her or Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries due to their positions on criminal justice.

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Shaun King has had foster children, nieces, and nephews living with him.