What’s different about the latest challenge to Affirmative Action? Should race be a consideration in college admissions? For the second time in three years, the Supreme Court justices are considering the constitutionality of that question. ...
Sherrilyn Ifill and the NAACP Legal Defense Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) Driving Diversity and Democracy in the Legal Profession When asked about the mission of the NAACP LDF, Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel] of the ...
Sherrilyn Ifill: A National Crisis Requires a National Response Sherrilyn Ifill declares that this country is facing a national crisis — a statement that she contends is not an exaggeration. The police brutality and violence ...
2015 National Fair Housing Conference, Residential Segregation Housing policy experts talked about residential segregation and diversity in U.S. cities. “The Problem We All Live With: Residential Segregation” was part of “A Call to Advance Housing ...
Policy Wonks and Advocates Critique Obama’s State of the Union Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund “I was extremely pleased that the President spoke to the importance of ...
Sherrilyn Ifill on a Federal Complaint Against the Hogan Administration on the Red Line We have an update on a federal complaint filed against the administration of Governor Larry Hogan earlier this week, by a ...
ESSA Offers Opportunity to Combat School Pushout ESSA includes provisions that could help dismantle one of the most discriminatory and insidious, yet often overlooked, phenomena in our nation’s public education system: school pushout. The term ...
