Last night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Sherrilyn Ifill lambasted Missouri officials for their silence, absence, and lack of political leadership in Ferguson. Forty minutes later, Gov. Jay Nixon announced he would ...
In multiple appearances on national media over the past few days, LDF leaders continue to press for action and answers on the police shooting of Michael Brown, and on the larger issue of overly militarized police ...
(Beaufort, SC) — Yesterday, the Burton-Dale-Beaufort Branch of the NAACP strongly urged the Beaufort City Council to end the current discriminatory at-large based system of voting and put up for voter referendum a district-based voting ...
In a segment on PBS Newshour, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill called for answers in the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who died a day before he was due to start his first ...
(NEW YORK, NY) –The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, Missouri, is the latest tragic incident in a summer marked by several police-involved homicides. In this case, the ...
New York Medical Examiner Rules Garner’s Death was a Homicide Caused by an Illegal NYPD Chokehold (New York, NY) On Friday, the New York City Medical Examiner ruled that the death of Eric Garner — the ...
