Tuesday, January 10, 2017 | news
LDF President and Director Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill speaks with ABC News’ Arlette Saenz during the first day of confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 | news
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Report and discussed today’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action with Pete Williams. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ensure that the political process in Michigan is not used by the majority to suppress the minority’s right to equal participation. Sherrilyn highlighted Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent: […]
Thursday, June 4, 2015 | news
Fight for the right to vote Democrats are suing to roll back Republican voting restriction laws, filing suits in Wisconsin, Ohio and other key 2016 states. Marc Elias, campaign attorney for Hillary for America, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund [President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill have more.
Friday, January 29, 2016 | news
2015 National Fair Housing Conference, Residential Segregation Housing policy experts talked about residential segregation and diversity in U.S. cities. “The Problem We All Live With: Residential Segregation” was part of “A Call to Advance Housing Rights and Opportunities,” the 2015 National Fair Housing Training and Policy Conference, held at HUD’s national headquarters.
Monday, June 22, 2015 | news
Charleston: Warning signs in atmosphere of hate NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s [President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill and former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole on warning signs of violence and creating a climate that encourages people to speak up about possible danger.
Thursday, November 29, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Senator Tim Scott’s announcement that he would not vote to confirm Thomas Farr to a seat on the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina: “It would have been an […]
Thursday, January 17, 2019 | news
Following the Senate hearings to consider William Barr to be the next U.S. Attorney Genera, Sherrilyn Ifill joins Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All in with Chris.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | news
In Places Journal, Alec MacGillis provides a historical perspective on the demographics and economics of mass transit in Baltimore, focusing particularly on the Red Line — a light rail that would have linked the impoverished, isolated, and transit-poor areas of East and West Baltimore and helped create upward mobility through better access to more jobs. The […]
Saturday, November 3, 2018 | news
President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill speaks with Joy Reid on the AMJoy show about the voter suppression issues ahead of the 2018 Midterms.
Thursday, February 18, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, together with civil rights leaders, speaking at Thursday’s session in a series of presidential candidate briefings Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, is participating in today’s session in a series of presidential candidate briefings, sponsored by the National Urban League, being held this week. The briefings will cover voting rights, […]
