Tuesday, July 11, 2017 | news
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 […]
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | news
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 […]
Thursday, October 20, 2016 | news
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 […]
Monday, August 14, 2017 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill joined Mitchell Reports to discuss the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA over the weekend.
Thursday, July 30, 2015 | news
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.
Sunday, July 23, 2017 | news
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.
Sunday, February 22, 2015 | news
From Meet the Press: Two years after the Supreme Court tasked Congress with amending the Voting Rights Act, why hasn’t anything been done?
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to discuss the affects of racial profiling, the Stand your Ground Laws and the gratification that the Justice Department has decided to investigate whether or not to pursue a federal civil rights claim.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | news
Roland Martin talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about Donald Trump appointing Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | news
The First Black President Faced Great Expectations. What Will Be Obama’s Legacy on Race? What did the election of America’s first black president mean for the United States? And how did President Obama’s policies and rhetoric advance issues important to the black community? Rael Nelson James of the Bridgespan Group, James Peterson of Lehigh University […]
