Justice Department Taskforce Recommends Criminal Justice Reforms Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, says it often seems like police departments are at war with communities. She welcomes the reforms ...
Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at the US Mission to the United Nations “Following Ambassador Power’s remarks and the video, Sewell Chan, Op-Ed/Sunday Review Deputy Editor of the New York Times, ...
Missouri’s Suspension Rate of Black Elementary Students Highest in the Nation Janel George, Senior Education Policy Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the study should spur schools and communities to action. ...
The International Business Times quotes LDF Director of the Washington D.C. Office Leslie Proll in an article highlighting singer John Legend’s Oscar accepttance speech addressing voting rights during the Academy Awards ceremony on February 22, 2015: “The ...
From Meet the Press: Two years after the Supreme Court tasked Congress with amending the Voting Rights Act, why hasn’t anything been done?
Event feed begins 28:07 time mark. LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined ten other multigenerational women at the White House with First Lady Michelle Obama to celebrate women in the fight for justice ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appears on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer to discuss civil rights, policing and the 50th Anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery which resulted in the Voting ...
