Ep. 300 - Sherrilyn Ifill

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Sherrilyn Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She joins David to talk about how growing up in the heat of the civil rights movement inspired her to practice law, the impact of the present reversing of Obama-era policies designed to protect marginalized groups, contemporary race relations in America, her take on Attorney General nominee Bill Barr’s confirmation hearing, and much more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:16.9	It seems like just yesterday that we were tooling down the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago
0:22.2	and in RV with Bernie Sanders for the first Axviles episode back in 2015.
0:28.9	Well, this is episode number 300.
0:32.2	And for those of you who have traveled every one of those miles with us or joined along
0:36.7	the way on the Axviles, I really thank you for listening.
0:40.6	Now this is also the week in which we marked the 87th anniversary of the birth of the Reverend
0:45.5	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
0:47.5	And so it seemed altogether fitting to spend some time with Sheryl and Eiffel, the President
0:53.8	and Director Council of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund.
0:58.1	In that role, she follows a parade of distinguished American civil rights leaders starting with
1:03.6	Thurgood Marshall, the future Supreme Court Justice, who formed the Legal Defense Fund in
1:09.3	1940.
1:10.3	Sheryl and has her own extraordinary story as the daughter of immigrants who has become
1:16.2	one of the most powerful and impactful voices against discrimination in this country.
1:21.2	As you will hear in this conversation, we spoke about her journey, about her powerful
1:27.2	book written in 2007 on the Courthouse Law and about the history of lynching in this country.
1:34.0	And we talked about the current challenges posed by a President and an administration that
1:39.3	has taken a decidedly different tact on the issue of civil rights.
1:45.9	Sheryl and Eiffel, so, so good to see you here on the campus of the University of Chicago
1:52.2	during King Week.
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