Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | news
This is a difficult but necessary thing to say: police involved killings and assaults on unarmed African Americans are unlikely to end soon. They will not end quickly, because they are neither new nor reflective of a “moment,” and because we have not yet shown the resolve needed to end it. We must face this […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports and the PBS Newshour today to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, leaving voters of color unprotected in places with the worst histories of racial discrimination in voting. […]
Friday, January 3, 2014 | news
In two op-eds this week for TheRoot.com and The Baltimore Sun, Sherrilyn Ifill focuses attention on real outrages — policy choices and structural inequalities that disproportionately impede the growth of black communities around the country. In “Forget Duck Dynasty; There Are Important Civil Rights Battles to Fight,” she writes that “the time we spend addressing [outrages like Paula […]
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | news
The presence of Thurgood Marshall is almost palpable as Sherrilyn Ifill surveys the stately wood paneling, the brown leather chairs in this classroom at the University of Maryland law school. Ifill has been a law professor at the Baltimore campus for 20 years — an achievement made possible by the late Supreme Court justice’s work. […]
Friday, January 29, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill: A National Crisis Requires a National Response Sherrilyn Ifill declares that this country is facing a national crisis — a statement that she contends is not an exaggeration. The police brutality and violence projected toward the African-American community has dated back decades, but the only difference between 1915 and 2015 is the presence […]
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | news
NC senators reject effort to get them to support Lynch for AG Speaking in the same call with Butterfield, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said Lynch’s nomination should be beyond politics.“When women all over the country see the right person for the right job at the right […]
Monday, November 24, 2014 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill joins a panel discussion on CNN’s State of the Union with remarks on the impending grand jury decision. Can Ferguson go from moment to movement? Will the grand jury decision be a verdict on race in America and how many Fergusons and Michael Browns exist in the U.S? As Ferguson awaits a grand jury’s […]
Thursday, April 23, 2015 | news
Baltimore Officials on Post-Ferguson Panel, now in Spotlight “There’s universal agreement that Ferguson represented the nadir of appropriate communication and transparency,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, {President and Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a University of Maryland law professor on leave. Ifill, who has been tweeting frequently and using the #FreddieGray hashtag, said […]
Friday, April 17, 2015 | news
On April 15, 2015, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill submitted a letter urging Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to sign Senate Bill 340, which restores voting rights to individuals with felony convictions as they complete a sentence of parole or probation and seek to fully integrate and contribute to communities around Maryland. Signing SB 340 into law – […]
Monday, May 11, 2015 | news
As we approach the 61st Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which invalidated racial apartheid in our nation’s public schools, Sherrilyn Ifill urges Congress to preserve the federal role of holding states accountable for promoting equal access to educational opportunity in Education Week op-ed. The ESEA: A Pivotal Civil […]
