Monday, June 22, 2015 | news
Charleston: Warning signs in atmosphere of hate NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s [President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill and former FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole on warning signs of violence and creating a climate that encourages people to speak up about possible danger.
Thursday, November 29, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Senator Tim Scott’s announcement that he would not vote to confirm Thomas Farr to a seat on the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina: “It would have been an […]
Thursday, January 17, 2019 | news
Following the Senate hearings to consider William Barr to be the next U.S. Attorney Genera, Sherrilyn Ifill joins Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All in with Chris.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | news
In Places Journal, Alec MacGillis provides a historical perspective on the demographics and economics of mass transit in Baltimore, focusing particularly on the Red Line — a light rail that would have linked the impoverished, isolated, and transit-poor areas of East and West Baltimore and helped create upward mobility through better access to more jobs. The […]
Saturday, November 3, 2018 | news
President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill speaks with Joy Reid on the AMJoy show about the voter suppression issues ahead of the 2018 Midterms.
Thursday, February 18, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, together with civil rights leaders, speaking at Thursday’s session in a series of presidential candidate briefings Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, is participating in today’s session in a series of presidential candidate briefings, sponsored by the National Urban League, being held this week. The briefings will cover voting rights, […]
Monday, August 26, 2013 | news
Along with Attorney General Eric Holder, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. John Lewis, and other civil rights leaders, Sherrilyn Ifill spoke to tens of thousands of Americans at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. The marchers stretched from the Lincoln Memorial down the length of the Mall’s reflecting pool and beyond. Although we marched […]
Thursday, April 30, 2015 | news
Will Baltimore’s mayor be held responsible for the riots? Mayor criticized for inaction on ‘The Kelly File’
Thursday, August 17, 2017 | news
Trump race crisis a test for Congress to take real action Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Congress can do more than the bare minimum of tweeting condemnation of racism to address the actual problem with legislation.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 | news
Change is coming to Ferguson “Change is coming to Ferguson. In the next few weeks the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin to negotiate in earnest with the city to restructure the police department, which the department has charged with engaging in a pattern and practice of racial discrimination.” Read Sherrilyn Ifill’s full op-ed here.
