Saturday, July 1, 2017 | news
Trump Seen Hatching Voter Suppression Plan With New Fraud Group Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump’s history and the people he is putting on his voter fraud commission point to a goal of suppressing voter participation.
Friday, May 17, 2019 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the critical nature of Brown v. Board of Education on the 65th anniversary of the decision and how important it is to have judicial nominees who endorse the case.
Saturday, April 24, 2021 | news
“STAY OUT OF POLITICS,” warned Mitch McConnell, the senate’s top Republican, representing Kentucky. It was a message to the American business community in response to the condemnation by some prominent business leaders of a new law in Georgia that suppresses black votes. Though he later softened his rebuke, other elected officials and conservative voices have […]
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | news
“We’ve got to really lean into the legal apparatus that has allowed this to happen.” For highlighted clips, click here.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | news
Voting Rights Act Before The Supreme Court The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made it illegal for states to deny voting rights based on race or color. But Southern states enacted poll taxes and literacy tests to keep blacks from voting. Then in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Section 5 of the […]
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | news
On Tavis Smiley’s show AYG radio, Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the current civil rights movement; how the dis-empowered can be agents of change; and how the current generation of civil rights activists can organize and mobilize.
Sunday, June 28, 2020 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill joined 60 Minutes to discuss the recent LDF voting rights win in the Eleventh Circuit and safeguarding the 2020 elections.
Monday, December 19, 2016 | news
Random House hosts “Big Ideas Night” panel with LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill, MSNBC host and author Chris Hayes, author and journalist Rebecca Traister, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, and publisher and editor-in-chief Chris Jackson as moderator. They discussed the aftermath of the 2016 Presidential election, and what a Trump presidency could mean for […]
Monday, October 31, 2016 | news
New Concerns About Voter Intimidation A group called “Vote Protectors” is trying to recruit 3,000 poll watchers in key battleground states. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Sherrilyn Ifill and Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice join to discuss. Watch the full video here.
Monday, April 10, 2017 | news
Sessions orders review of police reform deals Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, joins Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss Attorney General Jeff Sessions working to undo police reforms developed under the Obama administration.
