Thursday, July 28, 2016 | news
Brown Decision’s Legacy Should Include White Children Everyone knows that the court in Brown declared racially segregated education unconstitutional. But the court also squarely identified segregation as an insidious form of racial subordination. The high court’s decision identified education as perhaps the most important function of state government and powerfully affirmed the right of black […]
Sunday, February 15, 2015 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appears on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer to discuss civil rights, policing and the 50th Anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery which resulted in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Ms. Ifill joined reporters Kim Strassel from the Washington Post, Jan Crawford from CBS, Peter Baker […]
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and LDF Fellow Richard Rothstein join NPR/WAMU 88.5’s program 1A on an episode entitled “The Long History and Lasting Legacy of Housing Segregation.” Other guests included: Jim Carr, Coleman A. Young Endowed Chair and Professor in Urban Affairs, Wayne State University; Visiting Fellow with the Roosevelt Institute; consultant to […]
Thursday, March 4, 2021 | page
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted citizenship and equal rights to African Americans. “Amend: The Fight for America” is a six-part Netflix docuseries that explores the ongoing fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the 14th Amendment. LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, and writer, producer, director and Amend co-creator, […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 | news
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and Civil Rights leader Julian Bond discuss social activism and the Civil Rights movement across the decades on The Reid Report: Generation to Generation.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 | news
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Heather McGhee of Demos issued the following statement regarding the preview of the Starbucks’ anti-bias training: We are encouraged by the steps Starbucks has taken in developing an anti-bias training for its 175,000 employees on May 29. Following the racial bias incident in […]
Monday, April 24, 2017 | news
The change in boundaries came at the urging of the New York-based NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the country’s first civil rights law firm. “We believe that the city’s current electoral plan may undermine the opportunity of black voters in Florissant to participate equally in the political process and to elect candidates of their […]
Friday, January 11, 2019 | news
Beale Street x LDF: A Conversation We were thrilled to partner with Annapurna Pictures for a screening and discussion with Academy Award-winning film writer-director Barry Jenkins of his latest film, If Beale Street Could Talk, in Washington D.C. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and Academy-Award Winning Writer-Director Barry Jenkins discuss James Baldwin’s work – a […]
Thursday, May 7, 2015 | news
Experts advance solutions for healing relationships between law enforcement and communities of color at America Healing Conference [Sherrilyn] Ifill recommended that the federal government leverage grants to change police behavior and practices in departments across the country. Specifically, she said the nearly $1 billion in annual grants should be conditioned on “training to manage implicit […]
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | news
Healing Relationships between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color A Livestreamed Plenary Panel at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing Conference In light of recent events in Baltimore, Ferguson and cities around the country, there is an elevated level of distrust between many communities and police departments. Trust between law enforcement and the people they serve […]