Sherrilyn Ifill
@Sifill_LDF
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President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the nation's premier civil rights law organization. Tweets are my own.
Joined June 2013
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This is the one thing of which I am certain. We fight on. @60Minutes
"I don’t know of anything in the history of Black people in this country in which I’ve read some account in which it ended with, “and then they gave up.” That’s just not what we do. I know we work for the future of our children and our grandchildren and their children."
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The split between how Jackson's 98% Black public schools are responding to COVID-19 vs. the majority-white suburban Rankin and Madison county schools is emblematic of Mississippi's growing racial gap in pandemic response.
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U.S. judge rules Facebook must turn over closed accounts that fed Myanmar genocide
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The fight over Texas's 6-week abortion ban SB 8 is back before SCOTUS: Abortion providers want the justices to address the big jurisdiction issue now, instead of waiting for the 5th Circuit to go through its full process:
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Man, they’re not even pretending to pretend anymore.
Charlie Kirk: "Deputize a citizen force, put them on the border" in order to protect "white demographics in America"
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I am live on MSNBC’s #DeadlineWhiteHouse speaking on bipartisan talks on policing dying in Congress, and the continued fight for police reform in this country. We lost a round but the fight is not over.
#GeorgeFloydJusticeAndPolicingAct
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Of course.
Florida Republicans now looking at rescinding measles & mumps vaccine requirements, while continuing to spread disinformation that the Covid vaccine isn't "proven to work"
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Louisiana State Police Officer Indicted on Federal Civil Rights Charge for Assaulting Arrestee
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Travel safely. Bear witness.
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Members of the Senate failed to reach an agreement on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The failure of this legislation to move forward is a failure for our democracy. The people spoke by the millions, and their demand has not been met.
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Ratified in 1870, the 15th Amendment declared that states could not deny the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Supporters of the amendment celebrated the opening of the polls to African American men. Learn more:
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Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 303 migrant children who were separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration, down from 337 in August, according to a federal court filing
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Well this is a critical update: DHS "is not and will not send Haitian nationals....to...Guantanmo Bay."
Update: DHS says it “is not and will not send Haitian nationals being encountered at the southwest border to…Guantanamo Bay,” adding that the bid solicitation posted Friday “is a typical, routine first step in a contract renewal, and unrelated to the Southwest Border.”
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This story…..
10 Black Women Officers Sue DC Police, Claim Racial and Sexual Harassment – NBC4 Washington
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2018……
I would like to shed light on another missing person. Kierra Coles, a pregnant postal worker, has been missing for almost 3 years from Chicago, Illinois. Someone out there has to know something…#KierraColes #Findher
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Editorial board of The State Newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina:
"Racism is not a one-off. It is thriving and we have to admit it."
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Yes, this. Not just how and why, but also who…
#GeorgeFloydJusticeInPolicingAct.
This is a good backgrounder from June on how and why police reform fell apart once again… via @nbcnews
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Rest in Power #MelvinVanPeebles
His “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — about a Black American revolutionary on the run — was a milestone of independent and African American cinema
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