Sherrilyn Ifill Archives - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

Sherrilyn Ifill - Civil rights attorney and democracy warrior. Sr. Fellow, Ford Foundation. Former President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Why Are We Here? A Dispatch from the Nadir By Sherrilyn Ifill

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Sherrilyn Ifill — It wasn’t the Electoral College. It wasn’t gerrymandering, or even voter suppression. America was undone this week by the disease that sits in our national DNA…

November 8, 2024

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Black Civil Rights Leaders to Biden: Investigate Border Patrol Attack on Haitian Asylum Seekers

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

September 22, 2021 President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden: As a group of the nation’s Black leaders of…

September 22, 2021

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Armed protesters provide security as demonstrators take part in an "American Patriot Rally," on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, on April 30, 2020

For many cautious African Americans, the move to reopen America is not a ‘black friendly’ campaign

By IBW21COVID-19 (Coronavirus), News & Current Affairs

“Nothing about this movement is really black friendly.” By Nick Charles, NBC News — As protests erupt over stay-at-home orders and the clamor to reopen the economy becomes louder, the coalition of people storming state Capitols — some armed with semi-automatic weapons and most not wearing masks or observing social distancing guidelines — have had one thing in common: Almost all of them are white. African Americans, for the most…

May 12, 2020

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Ending Mass Incarceration: Ideas from Today’s Leaders

By IBW21Editors' Choice

By Inimai M. Chettiar, Priya Raghavan, Michael Waldman, Adureh Onyekwere — The American public has decisively concluded that our approach to criminal justice isn’t working. Mass incarceration is the civil rights…

May 17, 2019

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