Sherrilyn Ifill’s keynote speech seemed to make the most impact, as later speakers referred to it several times. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, accentuated the positive. In 20 ...
We Can’t Meaningfully Integrate Schools Without Desegregating Neighborhoods A bill introduced in the New York City Council proposes to establish “an office of school diversity within the human rights commission dedicated to studying the prevalence ...
A bystander video showed former officer Michael Slager shooting an unarmed Black man, Walter Scott, as he ran away. Sherrilyn Ifill joins Chris Hayes to discuss the case that ended in a mistrial.
From LGBT issues to police shootings, civil rights has been the story of the Obama Justice Department. NPR takes a look at what Donald Trump’s civil rights team might make a priority. JOHNSON: Sherrilyn Ifill ...
The Senate Run-Off Race in Louisiana. It’s Important. On November 8th, millions of Americans went to their local polling precincts and cast ballots in the general election. By the early morning of November 9th, voters ...
How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions In a little over a month’s time confirmation hearings will begin to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the Republican senator from Alabama, as the nation’s 84th attorney ...
While Monique Dixon, the deputy director of policy for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, is similarly concerned about the potential scaling back of federal investigations into police departments, she points out that the DOJ could ...
