Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on Hardball with Gov. Pataki. They discussed A.G. Holder’s speech on sentencing reform, as well as the landmark Stop-and-Frisk ruling which declared the NYPD’s tactics violate rights. “The reality is that crime began to go down in New York in the 1990s, when David Dinkins was mayor, before we implemented Stop-and-Frisk. And […]
Saturday, April 25, 2015 | news
The Legacy of Eric Holder Today was the last day in office for one of the most consequential attorneys general in American history. Holder is the fourth-longest serving attorney general ever. Rev. Sharpton talks to Sherrilyn Ifill and Ari Melber about his legacy. Watch the video here.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill joins a panel on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss the tragic slaying of NYC Police Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and the current debate over policing, the criminal justice system and racial fairness: U.S. Police And Public Safety “In a speech yesterday New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the murder of two […]
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | news
Southern states are moving quickly to change laws that will adversely affect minority voters. On The Root, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, discusses the aftermath of the SCOTUS decision on the Voting Rights Act, specifically how southern states have rushed to change or implement Voter ID laws. “Within hours of the Supreme Court decision you had […]
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF President and Director-Counsel, joins a panel on The Diane Rehms Show and discusses how not only content but presentation could have influenced the Ferguson grand jury to not indict police office Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Black teenager Michael Brown. Listen to radio interview here.
Thursday, July 3, 2014 | news
At the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival panel titled “After the Gavel: The Supreme Court, the Future, and You” Sherrilyn Ifill, along with Theodore B. Olson, Neal Katyal, and Jeffrey Rosen discuss recent Supreme Court decisions and what they mean for all Americans. As the Supreme Court wraps its term, the team of legal experts debates the big decisions, […]
Thursday, January 29, 2015 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined MSNBC’s The Reid Report today with host Joy-Ann Reid to discuss Loretta Lynch’s Senate confirmation hearings. Up for discussion were Loretta Lynch’s stance on voter ID laws, waterboarding and the current state of law enforcement.
Monday, December 1, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill on Meet The Press, hosted by Chuck Todd, talked about race in America after a flawed grand jury process in Ferguson, Missouri failed to return an indictment for Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown.
Thursday, January 8, 2015 | news
In the New York Daily News, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill comments on the preliminary settlement in which the New York Police Department agrees “to reform police training and guidelines for encounters with residents and visitors in public housing:” “Public housing residents and their visitors, the vast majority of whom are people of color, deserve […]
Thursday, July 24, 2014 | news
In an op-ed for Essence Magazine, Sherrilyn Ifill reflects on school integration, busing, and housing segregation during the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Ifill reflects on her childhood in which she attended an integrated school in Queens, New York where she was the lone Black girl in […]
