Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | news
“Describing the work of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as part of a liberal “ideological agenda” establishes a simplistic and unacceptable right-left balance that denigrates core civil rights work. Racial equality is a universal and central core value of unique importance to America’s post-Civil War identity, not an ideological agenda. Until very recently, […]
Thursday, August 3, 2017 | news
President Trump’s Justice Department has hardly been worthy of its name. It has retreated from meaningful police reform, argued on behalf of state laws that suppress minority voting rights, directed prosecutors to seek harsh sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, and extended the federal government’s power to seize the property of innocent Americans. Each of these […]
Monday, March 27, 2017 | news
Call white supremacist violence by its name: Terrorism The tragic killing of Timothy Caughman is a heinous hate crime. It is also an act of domestic terrorism. And it matters that we begin to name white supremacist murders in this way. His crime bears eerie similarity to that of Dylann Roof, who committed mass murder in […]
Friday, December 20, 2019 | news
Source: CNN.com Of all the ways the Trump administration has tried to roll back Obama-era initiatives, abandoning efforts to address police brutality, bias and misconduct may be one of the most devastating. After protests broke out across the country following the police killings of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri in […]
Friday, January 13, 2017 | news
Heed Coretta Scott King’s warning on Sessions Civil rights laws — from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay Act of 2009 — have been instrumental in bending the arc of this country. Among the most important of these civil rights laws is the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which […]
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | news
This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that outlawed racial segregation in our nation’s schools, fundamentally redefining the meaning of equality in American law. Although Brown is best remembered for sounding the death knell to Jim Crow in our country, the court’s decision […]
Monday, September 26, 2016 | news
Baltimore Sun: Attorney for 15-year-old girl pepper-sprayed by Hagerstown police slams chief for justifying actions Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the video shows that all of the officers need more training and that the officer who pepper-sprayed the girl is unfit for duty. “It’s clear that these police […]
Thursday, June 25, 2015 | news
Supreme Court upholds key piece of Fair Housing Act Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, talks to Andrea Mitchell about the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the 1968 Fair Housing.
Friday, February 13, 2015 | news
On February 9th, President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill presented remarks at the “Beyond Ferguson Series” hosted by the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law and School of Social Work. The “Beyond Ferguson Series” was the third of four speaking engagements that Ms. Ifill has done in the past several weeks, including appearances […]
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill gave a powerful talk on the Main Stage at the 2017 MAKERS Conference, touching upon topics including diversity, voter suppression, the spate of the police-involved death of unarmed African Americans caught on camera, and LDF’s 76 year history of fighting for equal justice for all. This year, MAKERS brought […]
