Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | news
When Donald Trump made his campaign pitch to African-American voters in Michigan, he clung to an image of black America that’s as racialized as it is entrenched in the minds of many of his supporters. “You’re living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs,” the then-candidate told a crowd that was overwhelmingly white, […]
Tuesday, December 19, 2017 | news
Politicians, pundits, and the press are still figuring out what the election of Doug Jones means for Alabama — a state that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump and that seemed all but destined to make Roy Moore, the twice-removed judge, the heir to the former Senate seat of Jeff Sessions. With eyes toward 2018 and beyond, there’s […]
Saturday, January 6, 2018 | news
President Donald Trump’s slapdash commission on election integrity, which he disbanded earlier this week, exists now only in the dustbin of history. But we should not assume that his administration’s attacks on voters of color are over. Beginning during his campaign, Trump has consistently peddled the odious narrative that voters of color are cheaters. During […]
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | news
By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN A decade before his shocking assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on behalf of the Montgomery Improvement Association, sent a thoughtful letter and a $1,000 check to Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel and founder of theNAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the civil-rights organization I’m now blessed to lead. King wrote that the […]
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | news
By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN The ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s conduct in the 2016 election is not just an inquiry into whether he or his associates committed crimes. It is a test of America’s commitment to the basic principle that our justice system should treat every citizen equally. If the US Senate […]
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 | news
Remembering Amelia Boynton Robinson The image of Amelia Boynton Robinson knocked out cold by white troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, during the protest march from Selma to Montgomery, is one of the most frightening and iconic photos of the civil rights movement. It shows a mature woman, her coat and gloves reflecting […]
Friday, January 16, 2015 | news
The Supreme Court will hear Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. on January 21, 2015. This case puts landmark civil rights law in jeopardy, as the case considers whether to overturn foundational fair housing protections. LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill has written an op-ed on the issue, […]
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 | news
“Two newly released reports from the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the 2016 election have been nothing short of revelatory. Both studies — one produced by researchers at Oxford University, the other by the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge — describe in granular detail how the Russian government tried to sow discord and confusion among American voters. And both […]
Monday, August 14, 2017 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined Ari Melber to discuss the white supremacist violence that swept Charlottesville, VA over the weekend and President Trump’s reaction.
Friday, January 20, 2017 | news
Civil Rights Investigation Into Freddie Gray’s Death Unresolved as Trump Takes Office Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said she and many others in the civil rights community “had hoped that we would have had a conclusion one way or the other” in the Gray and Garner cases by the […]
