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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 […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Voting Rights and Voting Suppression on POTUS 2016 with Brian Lehrer

POTUS 2016: Voting While Black This week, a look at the African American voting bloc with economist Julianne Malveaux and NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund [President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill. Also, research finds that a law intended to promote voter registration among minority and low income voters has been ignored, with Cornell University professor […]

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Violence in Charlottesville on Andrea Mitchell Reports

Sherrilyn Ifill joined Mitchell Reports to discuss the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend.

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Univ. of Cincinnati Police Officer Raymond Tensing Indictment in Death of Samuel Dubose

Ohio police officer charged with murder Univ. of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing has been charged with the murder of Samuel Dubose following a traffic stop. Lawrence is joined by the [NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill, fmr. NYPD Officer Eugene O’Donnell, and the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Byron McCauley.

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission on AM Joy

Trump’s Voter Fraud Panel Holds First Public Meeting Voting rights activists Vanita Gupta and Sherrilyn Ifill join Joy Reid to discuss what many see as the effort to codify and nationalize initiatives that experts say ultimately result in voter suppression.