Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
Re “At Home, and Accused of Trespassing” (About New York column, Sept. 28): Jim Dwyer reports that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered a “scoffing dismissal” to the suggestion that innocent people are wrongly charged with trespassing in New York City public housing. The mayor’s deliberate indifference to the realities of life for the 400,000 New […]
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 | case-update
On July 12th a federal court rejected New York City’s motion for summary judgment in a case that challenges the legality of NYPD tactics in the city’s public housing units. Last year the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and co-counsel form the Legal Aid Society filed a class action lawsuit against the City of New York and the […]
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | news
NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy is hosting a debate on the role that segregation in neighborhoods and schools plays in hindering economic and racial equality. The latest installment of The Dream Revisited series asks “Why Integration?” Sherrilyn Ifill responds that we must “Focus on the Costs of Segregation for All.” Does […]
Monday, March 4, 2019 | page
Recent Decisions by Federal Courts Have Made it More Difficult to Continue Integration Programs Source: Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy Related Case or Issue: Thompson v. HUD NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy is hosting a debate on the role that segregation in neighborhoods and schools plays in hindering […]
Thursday, August 14, 2014 | news
On The Diane Rehm Show, Sherrilyn Ifill provides an update on voting rights around the country and calls for congressional action. Click here to read LDF’s updated roundup of voting changes around the country since the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby v. Holder.
Friday, October 24, 2014 | news
Watch Sherrilyn Ifill discuss the Texas Voter ID Law, the Supreme Court and voter suppression with Bill Moyers on Moyers and company: The Fight — and the Right — to Vote from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. This past weekend, the Supreme Court upheld Texas’ harsh voter ID law for the upcoming midterm elections, potentially disenfranchising some 600,000 mostly black and […]
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 | news
On Joy Reid’s MSNBC show, Sherrilyn Ifill talks about the myth of voter fraud and the devastating effects of voter suppression on people of color throughout the country, especially in the south. Voter fraud is a phantom epidemic — there is no real evidence of this fraud to justify the wave of voter suppression. Studies […]
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | news
Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe after the move, banned by NYPD, was applied. Roland Martin talked with Sherrilyn Ifill, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rashad Robinson, and Glenn […]
Thursday, January 9, 2014 | news
The Education and Justice Departments released new guidelines on school discipline yesterday urging schools to ensure that punishments comply with civil rights laws. Sherrilyn Ifill talks with PBS’ Hari Sreenivasan and Chester Finn of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
Friday, October 25, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill had an extensive conversation with Tavis Smiley on his show talking about LDF’s work fighting for fairer drug sentences, supporting HBCU students adversely affected by Parent PLUS loan changes, and our recent SCOTUS case on a ballot initiative in Michigan that unfairly restructures the political process. Click here for the entire program
