Monday, March 9, 2015 | news
Threats to Voting Rights Remain, Selma Gathering Is Told Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., urged listeners to call their representatives in Congress. “Tell them you demand a hearing on an amendment to the Voting Rights Act,” she said. Read the full article here.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 | news
After deciding a trip to Ferguson, Missouri would be too disruptive, President Obama instead meets with civil rights leaders, including LDF President and Director Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill, and young organizers at the White House to discuss ways of rebuilding trust and improving relations between law enforcement and communities of color. White House Debated Ferguson Trip The […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | news
The Matter of Black Lives On February 18th, as part of the official recognition of Black History Month, President Obama met with a group of African-American leaders at the White House to discuss civil-rights issues. The guests—who included Representative John Lewis, of Georgia; Sherrilyn Ifill, the [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and […]
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 | news
White House, Republicans Sidestep Many Police Reform Ideas “…President Barack Obama is right when he reminds us that policing, like education, is a function of state and local government. And it’s true that his options are limited.,” wrote Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in a recent CNN […]
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill weighs in on the portrayals of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson in the new movie, “Selma.” ‘Selma’ does not distort history Film accurately portrays both MLK and LBJ – including their many flaws The movie Selma has not yet been released nationwide and it has already stirred […]
Thursday, February 25, 2016 | news
After Scalia: A Single Supreme Court Justice Can Impede Progress, Influence Our Discourse As the country and Congress grapple with the sudden passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a key lesson has emerged from his tenure and his legacy in civil rights cases in particular: A single Supreme Court justice can powerfully influence our national […]
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | news
When Donald Trump made his campaign pitch to African-American voters in Michigan, he clung to an image of black America that’s as racialized as it is entrenched in the minds of many of his supporters. “You’re living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs,” the then-candidate told a crowd that was overwhelmingly white, […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 | news
Politicians, pundits, and the press are still figuring out what the election of Doug Jones means for Alabama — a state that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump and that seemed all but destined to make Roy Moore, the twice-removed judge, the heir to the former Senate seat of Jeff Sessions. With eyes toward 2018 and beyond, there’s […]
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | news
President Donald Trump’s slapdash commission on election integrity, which he disbanded earlier this week, exists now only in the dustbin of history. But we should not assume that his administration’s attacks on voters of color are over. Beginning during his campaign, Trump has consistently peddled the odious narrative that voters of color are cheaters. During […]
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | news
By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN A decade before his shocking assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on behalf of the Montgomery Improvement Association, sent a thoughtful letter and a $1,000 check to Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel and founder of theNAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the civil-rights organization I’m now blessed to lead. King wrote that the […]
