"Show me what diversity looks like," protesters shout outside venue

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February 29, 2016 1:28 AM

Civil Rights activist, Rev. Al Sharpton, led a group of protesters to the venue of the Academy Awards, with them chanting "show me what diversity looks like."

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Veteran US civil rights campaigner, Rev Al Sharpton, led an Oscar protest today, February 28, 2016, 200 blocks from the Oscars ceremony.

According to him, “this will be the last year of the all-white Oscars." He also promised a stronger protest next time, “next time we’re going to organize a lot longer and a lot stronger," he said.

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He led the protesters on a March near the Dolby Theatre where the 88th Academy Awards is set to hold, with the protesters chanting “Show me what diversity looks like” against a hip-hop beat playing over a loud speaker.

A protester with a “Jesus Saves” was heard shouting “Hollywood is the synagogue of Satan.”

Earlier in the day, Sharpton spoke at the First AME Church saying “There are no blacks who can greenlight a film. We can put a black family in the White House, but we can’t put a black in the boardroom of power in Hollywood.”