Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | news
NC senators reject effort to get them to support Lynch for AG Speaking in the same call with Butterfield, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said Lynch’s nomination should be beyond politics.“When women all over the country see the right person for the right job at the right […]
Monday, November 24, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill joins a panel discussion on CNN’s State of the Union with remarks on the impending grand jury decision. Can Ferguson go from moment to movement? Will the grand jury decision be a verdict on race in America and how many Fergusons and Michael Browns exist in the U.S? As Ferguson awaits a grand jury’s […]
Thursday, April 23, 2015 | news
Baltimore Officials on Post-Ferguson Panel, now in Spotlight “There’s universal agreement that Ferguson represented the nadir of appropriate communication and transparency,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, {President and Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a University of Maryland law professor on leave. Ifill, who has been tweeting frequently and using the #FreddieGray hashtag, said […]
Friday, April 17, 2015 | news
On April 15, 2015, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill submitted a letter urging Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to sign Senate Bill 340, which restores voting rights to individuals with felony convictions as they complete a sentence of parole or probation and seek to fully integrate and contribute to communities around Maryland. Signing SB 340 into law – […]
Monday, May 11, 2015 | news
As we approach the 61st Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which invalidated racial apartheid in our nation’s public schools, Sherrilyn Ifill urges Congress to preserve the federal role of holding states accountable for promoting equal access to educational opportunity in Education Week op-ed. The ESEA: A Pivotal Civil […]
Monday, April 13, 2015 | news
The Truth About Black Twitter “Black Twitter is a force. It’s also not particularly well understood by those who aren’t a part of it. The term is used to describe a large network of black Twitter users and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to the network’s size, interconnectedness, […]
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today announced that President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill will step down from her role in the spring of 2022 after nearly a decade leading the organization through its greatest period of growth and transformation. Janai Nelson, LDF’s current Associate Director-Counsel who has worked alongside Ms. Ifill for nearly […]
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 | news
“You are required by history to meet this civil rights moment. It is a moment in which we have the chance to transform our approach to public safety, to recognize that most community conflicts do not require the intervention of an armed officer, and to speak our values through federal and state budgets that prioritize […]
Monday, January 12, 2015 | news
On January 13, 2015, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), testified before the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing during a public meeting held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. View the webcast here. Ifill recounted several incidents of lethal and excessive force exercised by law enforcement […]
Friday, May 1, 2015 | news
From CharlieRose.com, “A discussion about unrest in Baltimore with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.”
