During his Senate confirmation hearings in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts memorably compared himself to a baseball umpire. As a jurist, he said, his job is simply “to call balls and strikes,” not to determine ...
By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN The ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s conduct in the 2016 election is not just an inquiry into whether he or his associates committed crimes. It is a test ...
By: Jin Hee Lee Source: Time Magazine I am proud to be an Asian American woman of Korean descent. But sadly, I did not always feel this way. For most of my childhood, I ...
Last year a Baltimore school police officer pled guilty to assault charges for slapping and kicking a 16-year-old student. In 2015, another school police officer pled guilty to assault charges after walloping an unarmed middle ...
The Work of Ensuring Civil Rights Describing the work of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund as part of a liberal “ideological agenda” establishes a simplistic and unacceptable right-left balance that denigrates core civil ...
In her one-woman show Notes from the Field, Anna Deavere Smith exposes the consequences of America’s abandonment of our most vulnerable and troubled children. She reveals that what is now known as the “school-to-prison pipeline” is, ...
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill sat down with Crooked Media’s DeRay Mckesson for the latest episode of the ‘Pod Save the People’ podcast. She discussed LDF’s efforts to advance voting rights as well as ...
