Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF President and Director-Counsel, joins a panel on The Diane Rehms Show and discusses how not only content but presentation could have influenced the Ferguson grand jury to not indict police office Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Black teenager Michael Brown. Listen to radio interview here.
Thursday, July 3, 2014 | news
At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled “After the Gavel: The Supreme Court, the Future, and You” Sherrilyn Ifill, along with Theodore B. Olson, Neal Katyal, and Jeffrey Rosen discuss recent Supreme Court decisions and what they mean for all Americans. As the Supreme Court wraps its term, the team of legal experts debates the big decisions, […]
Thursday, January 29, 2015 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined MSNBC’s The Reid Report today with host Joy-Ann Reid to discuss Loretta Lynch’s Senate confirmation hearings. Up for discussion were Loretta Lynch’s stance on voter ID laws, waterboarding and the current state of law enforcement.
Monday, December 1, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill on Meet The Press, hosted by Chuck Todd, talked about race in America after a flawed grand jury process in Ferguson, Missouri failed to return an indictment for Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown.
Thursday, January 8, 2015 | news
In the New York Daily News, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill comments on the preliminary settlement in which the New York Police Department agrees “to reform police training and guidelines for encounters with residents and visitors in public housing:” “Public housing residents and their visitors, the vast majority of whom are people of color, deserve […]
Thursday, July 24, 2014 | news
In an op-ed for Essence Magazine, Sherrilyn Ifill reflects on school integration, busing, and housing segregation during the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Ifill reflects on her childhood in which she attended an integrated school in Queens, New York where she was the lone Black girl in […]
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 | news
In The Houston Chronicle, Sherrilyn Ifill argues that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court gives even greater influence to wealthy donors in elections, cheapens the act of voting. She cites the opening sentence of Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in which he writes: “There is no […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | news
*Update Oct 16, 2014 @ 12:00 PM: Watch video recording of debate on C-SPAN. Sherrilyn Ifill and Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation will discuss the likely impact of recent court rulings, new state election laws and voter ID laws on the upcoming mid-term elections at a Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, Oct. 16 at 10 […]
Monday, December 2, 2013 | news
In today’s National Law Journal, Sherrilyn Ifill, along with Stephen Bright, president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights and Virginia Sloan, president of The Constitution Project, jointly pen an op-ed on the shortage of indigent defense representation. “Lawyers, Not Another Commission, for the Poor” argues that now is the time for […]
Thursday, May 22, 2014 | news
Today, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NAACP LDF), addressed New York University Law School’s 2014 graduates in a single ceremony at Madison Square Garden honoring both JDs and LLMs. Ifill, who received her Juris Doctor degree from NYU Law School in 1987, noted that 2014 is a […]
