The NAACP Legal Defense Fund announced Wednesday that its president and director-counsel Sherrilyn Ifill will be stepping down from her post next year after serving as head of the prominent civil ...

Over three years after her death, Gwen Ifill is being honored for her legacy as a pioneering journalist. In honor of Black History Month kicking off this weekend, the U.S. Postal Service issued the ...

Sherrilyn Ifill, the former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said a healthy democracy could not coexist with white supremacy and systemic racism during Harvard’s annual Dr. Martin Luther ...

Tragically more than 110,000 Americans have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus, but it was the taking of one American life, George Floyd's, a black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with Sherrilyn Ifill, President & Director-Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, that aired Sunday, April 25, 2021, on "Face the Nation." ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “The key is to be who you are, wherever you are.” This was the message Gwen Ifill, managing editor ...

This week, America lurched from the quiet emptiness of lockdowns to the clamor of crowds as protesters filled streets and plazas around the country, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who ...

BUFFALO, NY – Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill will speak at the University at Buffalo at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Center for the Arts, North Campus, as part of UB’s Distinguished ...

She is the esteemed president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The train was general admission and was not full, Sherrilyn Ifill noted, yet the conductor steadfastly refused to ...

Congressman Elijah Cummings has died. The Maryland Democrat represented his Baltimore district in the House of Representatives for more than 20 years. He was a very important voice for civil rights, ...

NEW YORK -- Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS' "NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said. She was 61. A ...

Gwen Ifill was best known for her co-hosting jobs on Washington Week and PBS NewsHour Over three years after her death, Gwen Ifill is being honored for her legacy as a pioneering journalist. In honor ...