On Andrea Mitchell Reports, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the National Urban League’s Marc Morial talked with Chris Matthews (who filled in for Andrea Mitchell) about the makeup of the ...
Choosing Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director–Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., to address the large luncheon crowd at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference last Thursday was a no-brainer. Yes, she is ...
“What, since Sunday, has been done to give the community confidence that justice will be done?” Ifill asked on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd” the morning of August 18th. “The unrest you see ...
On The Diane Rehm Show, Sherrilyn Ifill provides an update on voting rights around the country and calls for congressional action. Click here to read LDF’s updated roundup of voting changes around the country since the ...
The Right to Resist: How Will YOU Fight Police Brutality? ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER LUMUMBA AKINWOLE-BANDELE ON THE NEED TO CHALLENGE THE RIGHT OF POLICE TO TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITIES “We declare our right on this earth…to be a human ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — No one on the Supreme Court objected publicly when the justices voted to let Arizona proceed with the execution of Joseph Wood, who unsuccessfully sought information about the drugs that would be ...
On the opinion pages of The Hill, Leslie Proll , director of NAACP LDF’s Washington, D.C. office, calls on incoming House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to make passage of the Voting Rights Act Amendment of 2014 ...
