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Tag: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Sherrilyn Ifill (Courtesy photo)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Honoring Sherrilyn Ifill

by WI Guest Author November 23, 2021December 21, 2021

Sherrilyn Ifill, the wonderful president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), just announced she will step down from LDF next spring. As the head of the nation’s premier civil rights legal organization fighting for equal justice under the law, she has been an extraordinary voice in the struggle for racial justice and equality

Posted inBlack Experience

Anonymous Donor’s $40M Gift Funds NAACP Program for New Generation of Civil Rights Lawyers

by WI Guest Author January 22, 2021December 21, 2021
The Rev. Al Sharpton leads the Commitment March to fight for criminal justice reform on August 28 with some of the families who have lost loved ones to police brutality. The march, under the rallying call "Get Your Knee Off Our Necks," coincided with the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
Posted inMarc Morial, Op-Ed, Opinion

MORIAL: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks

by WI Guest Author September 9, 2020December 21, 2021
Virginians turned out in record numbers to cast their vote in the Democratic presidential primary election on March 3. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
Posted inD Kevin McNeir, National

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks Politics, Voter Suppression and the Future of America

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor March 4, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inMarian Wright Edelman, Op-Ed, Opinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Staying Vigilant on Brown

by WI Guest Author May 22, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inCharlene Crowell, Financial Literacy

Civil Rights Groups Counter DOJ Attack on Affirmative Action

by WI Guest Author August 11, 2017October 31, 2020
Passengers board a Green Line train at the Prince George's Plaza Metro station in Hyattsville in September. Metro recently released a safety report that shows injuries among riders and employees slightly increased last year. (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Community

Court Allows Metro Discrimination Case to Proceed

by WI Guest Author April 26, 2017October 30, 2020
Posted inPolitics

Hillary Clinton Meets with Civil Rights Groups, Black Millennials

by NNPAFreddie February 22, 2016October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Loretta Lynch to NAACP: ‘Our Work is Not Finished’

by Washington Informer July 16, 2015October 30, 2020
Posted inNational

Group Seeks New Grand Jury in Ferguson Police Shooting Case 

by Washington Informer January 7, 2015October 30, 2020

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