Friday, May 29, 2020 | news
“For us, the COVID-19 pandemic and what our community has suffered…and when you see the years and years and decades of police violence against unarmed African-Americans, and the ways in which the justice system has failed us, and the ways in which our lives have been diminished in this country, yes, it is powerful […]
Saturday, May 18, 2019 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education with Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AM Joy.
Sunday, March 19, 2017 | news
Neil Gorsuch’s Conservative Record Revealed Neil Gorsuch will sit in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow–and his record shows that he is more conservative than many people think. Joy and her panel discuss the Supreme Court nominee.
Sunday, May 3, 2015 | news
Searching for solutions in Baltimore Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NPR’s Michele Norris , National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post’s Michael Gerson and economist Julianne Malveaux talk about the crisis in Baltimore and what can be done to solve the problems. Watch the conversation here.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 | news
Congressional Resistance to Trump Begins Now The Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has already asked committee chair Senator Chuck Grassley to postpone the Sessions hearing, which is set for January 10. Grassley said no, but Democrats are still pushing.“The whole idea is to have a meaningful hearing, where senators and their staff get […]
Friday, July 8, 2016 | news
“[President and Director-Counsel] of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill, joins MSNBC’s Brian Williams to discuss the week of police involved shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. They also discuss the fatal shooting of five police officers during a protest in Dallas.”
Friday, January 8, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill on a Federal Complaint Against the Hogan Administration on the Red Line We have an update on a federal complaint filed against the administration of Governor Larry Hogan earlier this week, by a coalition of civil rights groups including the NAACP and the ACLU, claiming that the cancellation of Baltimore’s Red Line light […]
Thursday, September 22, 2016 | news
Today, LDF Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined civil rights activist DeRay McKesson at Google’s Zeitgeist event for an intimate and open discussion about current race relations in the US, systemic racism, and the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. The two also touched upon recent police-involved shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Charlotte, North Carolina. The […]
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 | news
On Monday, October 5, 2015, Maryland Public Television invited LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill to discuss race and policing, Freddie Gray and more with a live studio audience. She joined Michael Higginbotham, Law Professor at University of Baltimore and author of “Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America.”
Sunday, January 8, 2017 | news
Sessions Nomination Faces Resistance Joy Reid and her guests detail why many groups are organizing to oppose the confirmation of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general of the United States, citing his past litigation related to civil rights.
