Explore Shaun King net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! American writer and civil rights activist who became one of the most prominent members in the Black Lives Matter movement. He was also the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News. In this article, we will discover how old is Shaun King? Who is Shaun King dating now & how much money does Shaun King have?
| Name | Shaun King |
| First Name | Shaun |
| Last Name | King |
| Occupation | Activist |
| Birthday | September 17 |
| Birth Year | 1979 |
| Place of Birth | Kentucky |
| Home Town | Kentucky |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Kay King |
| Siblings | Russ King, Jason King |
| Spouse | Rai King |
| Children(s) | Taeyonna King, Kendi King, Savannah King, Ezekiel King |
Shaun King Biography
Shaun King is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on September 17, 1979 in Kentucky, Kentucky, United States. He was awarded an Oprah Winfrey Scholar by Morehouse College.
King attended Morehouse College, a private, historically black men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in history. In 1999, King was elected President of the student government association based on a campaign of inclusion for all students. Midway through his education, he had to take a medical leave. Upon his return, he was named an Oprah Winfrey Scholar by Morehouse. Oprah scholars are given financial support and are required to maintain their grade point average and do community service. King fulfilled his community service requirement by tutoring and mentoring students at Franklin Lebby Stanton Elementary School in Atlanta. After graduation in 2002, King was a research assistant for Morehouse history professor Alton Hornsby Jr.
King left teaching and worked as a pastor at Total Grace Christian Center in DeKalb County, Georgia. He had been inspired to take up the Gospel when he was in high school; while King was recovering from injuries after an assault, King was regularly visited by his best friend’s father, who was a pastor. He recalled growing up without a father figure and said, “I just found myself so impacted by this man coming to visit me that I wanted to be like him.” In 2008, King founded a church in Atlanta called “Courageous Church”. He made use of social media to recruit new members and was known as the “Facebook Pastor”. In 2012, King resigned from the Courageous Church, citing personal stress and disillusionment.
He was born and raised in Versailles, Kentucky. He majored in history at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a father of five.
He was a pastor at Total Grace Christian Center in DeKalb County, Georgia. He founded a church in Atlanta called Courageous Church in 2008.
Jeffery Shaun King (born September 17, 1979) is an American writer, civil rights activist, and co-founder of Real Justice PAC. King uses social media to promote social justice causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement.
Shaun King Net Worth
Shaun is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shaun King's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
Following graduation, he became a high school civics teacher. He was also a motivational speaker for Atlanta’s juvenile justice system.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Activist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 2012, King and web designer Chad Kellough founded HopeMob.org, a charity site that used voting to select a particular person’s story and then raise money for that story until its goal was met. The money went to an organization which provided for the person’s needs, not to the person individually. After one goal was met, the next story in line would then get funds raised. HopeMob initially raised funds to build their platform in January 2012 on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Their campaign raised about $125,000.
King has raised money for multiple causes including the Tamir Rice shooting, and various incidents where the Black Lives Matter movement has been involved. Through the fund-raising website, YouCaring.com, King raised $60,000 for Rice’s family. Rice, a 12-year-old resident of Cleveland, Ohio, was killed in 2014 by two Cleveland city policemen after they responded to a complaint “of a male black sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people.”
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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In March 2010, while still a pastor, he founded aHomeinHaiti.org as a subsidiary of Courageous Church and used eBay and Twitter to raise $1.5 million to send tents to Haiti after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria was a spokesperson for the campaign.
Who is Shaun King Dating?
According to our records, Shaun King married to Rai King . As of January 13, 2024, Shaun King’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Shaun King. You may help us to build the dating records for Shaun King!King became a contributing blogger for the politically liberal website, the Daily Kos, in September 2014. His contributions to the website have focused on civil rights, violence in Ferguson, Missouri, and Charleston, South Carolina, as well as allegations of police brutality, especially toward the black community.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Shaun King height 6 feet 1 inches Shaun weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
| Height | 6 feet 1 inches |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
King’s work for Haiti inspired him to launch TwitChange.com, a charity auction site. TwitChange held Twitter charity auctions on eBay where celebrities offered to retweet winning bidders’ tweets in exchange for support of a particular charity. One campaign raised funds to build an orphanage in Bonneau, Haiti. In 2010, TwitChange won the Mashable Award for “Most Creative Social Good Campaign”.
In August 2015, Milo Yiannopoulos questioned King’s biracial identity in an article for Breitbart News. Yiannopoulos reported that King’s birth certificate lists Naomi Fleming and Jeffrey Wayne King, both of whom are white, as King’s parents and that a police report cited King’s race as “white.”
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Shaun Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shaun King celebrates birthday on September 17 of every year.
After learning the child had not been buried as of five months after the shooting, and the child’s mother had moved into a homeless shelter, he started the fund to assist the Rice family; however, family attorney Timothy Kucharski stated in May 2015 that neither he nor the Rice family had heard of King or the fundraiser, nor had they received any money. The money raised was then seized by the court and placed into Tamir Rice’s estate instead of being freely available to the family. King and the Rice family’s new legal counsel, Benjamin Crump, then started a second charity drive with the proceeds going directly to the family. An additional $25,000 was raised.
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| Born: | May 29, 1977 St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight: | 209 lb (95 kg) |
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Who is Shaun King wife?
Rai King
How old is Shaun King?
42 years (September 17, 1979)
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