LDF Director-Counsel Ifill Appears on TJMS to Encourage Fight for Voting Rights

Today LDF Director Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared with Roland Martin and Tom Joyner on the syndicated radio program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS).  The show reaches an estimated 8 million listeners.  Ifill encouraged listeners to follow ...

Ryan Haygood on Melissa Harris Perry: Voting Rights are Under Attack

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 ...

LDF Discusses Stand your Ground Laws

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.

LDF Discusses President Obama’s Reflections on Race and the Zimmerman Trial

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 discusses the Pressing of the DOJ to Pursue Federal Civil Rights against George Zimmerman

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 Continues Discussion about Events Taking Place in the Trial’s Aftermath on NewsNation

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses with Tamron Hall the events taking place in the trial’s aftermath.

LDF Op-Ed Highlights Importance of Key Fair Housing Provision

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 ...

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