Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission on AM Joy

Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel Holds First Public Meeting Voting rights activists Vanita Gupta and Sherrilyn Ifill join Joy Reid to discuss what many see as the effort to codify and nationalize initiatives that experts say ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Whether Black Lives Matter to the Courts

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill was on WYPR’s program Midday with Tom Hall for an episode entitled “Do Black Lives Matter to the Criminal Justice System?” Sherrilyn was joined by Angela J. Davis, Professor at the Washington College ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Exposes Absurdity of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission in Washington Post

Sherrilyn Ifill Exposes the Absurdity of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission “We don’t have a problem of too many people showing up to vote. We have a problem of too few people showing up to vote.” ...

Five More Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall

Five More Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall This Sunday will be the 109th birthday of the legendary Black lawyer and jurist Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993. As a young lawyer, Marshall argued ...

Sherrilyn Ifill on The Rachel Maddow Show: Voter Fraud Lie Being Used to Engage in Voter Suppression

Trump Seen Hatching Voter Suppression Plan With New Fraud Group Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump’s history and the people he ...

What You Need to Know About President Trump’s Pick to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

On June 29, President Donald Trump nominated Eric S. Dreiband to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Department of Justice. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Division is ...

Five Facts About the Education Trend Threatening to Further Segregate Schools

There’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to ...

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