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Sherrilyn Ifill Named Head of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund announced today that it has named Sherrilyn Ifill its new president and director-counsel. Ifill, who will start her new position in January, is a law professor and the author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century. She has also made regular television […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Legacy

LDF’s Seventh President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Since becoming LDF’s seventh President and Director-Counsel in 2013, Sherrilyn Ifill has advanced and strengthened LDF’s legacy as the nation’s premier racial justice legal organization during one of the most fraught and volatile periods for civil rights of our time.  After nearly a decade at the helm, Ms. […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Lauds Supreme Court Decision in Disparate Impact Case

The Supreme Court’s other big case Chris Hayes talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, [President and Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about why the court found the Texas Department of Housing guilty of housing discrimination.

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in Conversation on the Unequal Effects of Urban Freeways on Minority Neighborhoods on the Diane Rehm Show

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx On The Legacy Of The U.S. Highway System U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has a message for Americans this week and it’s an unusual one for someone in his position. When the country’s urban freeways were constructed, they were often routed through low income, minority neighborhoods. Instead of connecting us to […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins TIME 100 Talks

President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, joins TIME 100 Talks to discuss the current state of our nation, police reform, the exacerbation of voter suppression amidst the pandemic, and the seventh anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder.

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Reid Out to Discuss Protecting the USPS, Mail-In Voting and the 2020 Election

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: The Justice Emergency in America

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joins The Last Word to dissect the root causes of America’s justice emergency.

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Conversation on the Supreme Court in Light of the Sudden Death of Justice Antonin Scalia

  What next for the Supreme Court? Supreme Court experts join Chris Hayes to discuss what happens if the Court does not get a tie-breaking ninth justice for a year or more. 

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s AM Joy to Discuss SCOTUS’ Gerrymandering and Census Decisions

LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AM Joy to discuss the Supreme Court decisions in this week’s Census and Gerrymandering cases.

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Discuss President Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Reform

LDF President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss the president’s Executive Order on Policing Reform. Calling the executive order a “photo-op,” Ms. Ifill called out the president’s past hypocrisy and called his efforts to try and rebrand himself on this  issue “quite grotesque.”