Friday, May 9, 2014 | news
In an interview with CBS Radio’s Fresh Perspectives show, Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the Brown v Board of Education decision sixty years on, as well as the work that has been done in desegregation efforts and the work that lays ahead for the country. Ifill discusses the significance of Brown in shifting American life. It was […]
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joined Democracy Now! to discuss the ongoing trial of two Baltimore police officers who are part of what has been described as one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation. Sherrilyn […]
Saturday, May 13, 2017 | news
Sessions’ disastrous drug crime policy Joy Reid and her panel discuss Attorney General Jeff Sessions reverting the evolution on drug crime charges back to harsh sentencing, despite the chorus of voices and mountains of evidence declaring: it doesn’t work.
Friday, December 9, 2016 | news
A bystander video showed former officer Michael Slager shooting an unarmed Black man, Walter Scott, as he ran away. Sherrilyn Ifill joins Chris Hayes to discuss the case that ended in a mistrial.
Monday, July 11, 2016 | news
How Can We Improve Relations between Police and Minority Communities? “Sherrilyn Ifill [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,] Terrence Cunningham of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues discuss [on Face the Nation] racial policing and the road to healing […]
Thursday, November 5, 2015 | news
(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society at the New York University School of Law on November 5. […]
Thursday, November 5, 2015 | news
(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society at the New York University School of Law on November 5. […]
Thursday, February 26, 2015 | news
THE PAUL ROBESON LECTURE WITH GUEST SPEAKER SHERRILYN IFILLPRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR-COUNSEL, NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND RACE, RIGHTS & THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Thursday, February 12, 2015- 6:00PM- 8:00PM The 2015 Paul Robeson Lecture is part of a year-long series of programs commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 […]
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | news
Marrying Dignity and Equal Protection “Yesterday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether states can exclude gays and lesbians from the benefits of marriage, the crisis in Baltimore flooded the airwaves and brought renewed attention to long-simmering issues of racial justice. While the two issues might seem worlds apart, the often-overlooked truth […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill: “People have to speak for themselves and that’s the requirement for citizenship.” For the entire segment, click here.
