'Royal day in Harlem' for late James Brown

The Rev. Al Sharpton promised a “royal day in Harlem” as he raced through the night in a van to make sure the late US singer James Brown did not miss his last date at the historic Apollo Theatre in New York.

A horse-drawn carriage waited to take Brown’s body through Harlem this morning to begin three days of wakes, remembrances and a funeral of the kind normally reserved for royalty.