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Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Powerful Talk at 2017 MAKERS Conference

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 […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Keynote Speech at “Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50” Conference

By: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Source: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society   Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., gives a keynote on Thursday, March 1, 2018, on the third and final day of the “Race and Inequality in America: The […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Detailed Examination of Jeff Sessions Hearings on Diane Rehm’s Inaugural Podcast

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joins the first episode of Diane Rehm’s podcast for a lengthy conversation on the confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions as he seeks to be the Attorney General of the United States. Segment begins at minute 9:40.

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Commencement Address at Bard College

Bard College held its 155th commencement on Saturday, May 23, 2015. Bard College held its one hundred fifty-fifth commencement on Saturday, May 23, 2015. At the commencement ceremony, Bard President Leon Botstein conferred 420 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2015 and 148 graduate degrees. The commencement address was given by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Exposes Absurdity of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission in Washington Post

Sherrilyn Ifill Exposes the Absurdity of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission “We don’t have a problem of too many people showing up to vote. We have a problem of too few people showing up to vote.” Leave it to Sherrilyn Ifill to succinctly expose the absurdity of President Trump’s election integrity commission. As president of the NAACP Legal Defense and […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Examines Baltimore Policing Reform in the Aftermath of Freddie Gray’s In-Custody Death

After Freddie Gray: Looking to the Future Last year as charges were announced against six Baltimore police officers for their role in the arrest and fatal injuries sustained by Freddie Gray, it seemed to many like a case in which police officers would finally be held accountable for the in-custody death of an unarmed black […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses White Supremacy at Selma55

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville with Joy Ann Reid

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Joy Ann Reid to Discuss the White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville [video:https://vimeo.com/229429206 width:700 height:700 align:center]

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Whether Black Lives Matter to the Courts

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill was on WYPR’s program Midday with Tom Hall for an episode entitled “Do Black Lives Matter to the Criminal Justice System?” Sherrilyn was joined by Angela J. Davis, Professor at the Washington College of Law at American University. Professor Davis edited the recently released book, Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment, for […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses What Comes Next in Good Magazine

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Is Gearing Up For Battle With The White House The LDF— our nation’s oldest civil rights legal organization—has been involved with many of the biggest police brutality cases of our time: Baltimore, Ferguson and Charleston, among others. The group is currently colitigant (with the Department of Justice) in a landmark case against the state […]