The Director of the Political Participation Group at NAACP Legal Defense Fund Ryan Haygood joined the Melissa Harris Perry Show to discuss the serious threat to voting rights facing African Americans. LDF defended the Voting ...
Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry show to discuss the problems with Stand Your Ground laws.
President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews after President Obama’s surprise speech about race in America after the verdict. She discusses the difference between the communication style of Rachel’s Jeantel’s testimony ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to discuss the affects of racial profiling, the Stand your Ground Laws and the gratification ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses with Tamron Hall the events taking place in the trial’s aftermath.
In an op-ed for Central New Jersey’s largest publication, The Times of Trenton, LDF’s Director of Economic Justice ReNika Moore discusses the importance of the disparate impact provision of the Fair Housing Act, which the ...
Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Practice and Interim Director of Litigation, writes in the New York Times about why the pursuit of justice requires a federal investigation into the killing of Trayvon Martin. Recounting the history ...
