Episode 25: Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill

Justice In America

The Appeal

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Justice in America, Josie Duffy Rice and her guest co-host, Darnell Moore, talk to Sherrilyn Ifill about policing, civil rights, the criminal justice system, and more. Ifill is the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the nation’s premier civil rights law organization. LDF was founded in 1940 by one of the most important civil rights lawyers in history, Thurgood Marshall, who later became Supreme Court justice. Ifill began her career as a Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union, before joining the staff of the LDF as an Assistant Counsel in 1988, where she litigated voting rights cases for five years. Her 2007 book “On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century,” was highly acclaimed, and is credited with laying the foundation for contemporary conversations about lynching and reconciliation. Ifill is one of our heroes, and it was an honor to speak with her for this episode of Justice in America.

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0:00.0	So many lynchings took place on the courthouse lawn in this country.
0:09.0	When I was growing up, I really believed that lynchings took place in the woods somewhere.
0:14.3	And that's just not true.
0:16.2	So often the courthouse law was a very deliberate place for lynchings to happen because the
0:21.3	lynchers and the crowd meant to be saying something about who was in
0:25.2	control of justice and they meant to be critiquing the formal justice system. Hey everybody I'm Josie Duffy Rice and I am Darnell Moore.
0:42.7	And this is Justice in America.
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1:00.0	We'd love to hear from you.
1:02.0	So we're really excited about our interview today.
1:06.0	We started this episode with our clip from our featured guest,
1:09.0	Sherlin Eiffel.
1:10.0	Sherlin is literally one of the most remarkable civil rights leaders, lawyers, activists in America.
1:18.0	I mean she is a true true living legend.
1:20.7	She's a law professor, she's an author, and she's also currently the president and director council of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
1:29.0	She is the Legal Defense Fund's seventh president since Thurgood Marshall himself founded the organization back in 1940.
1:36.7	We're so excited. Recently, Cherylin spent some time with us in New York where we discussed her work with the Legal Defense Fund, policing, how it works
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