Sherrilyn Ifill

Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and scholar. She served as President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund from 2013 to 2022. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and will launch the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy at Howard University Law School in 2024. (December 2023)

How America Ends and Begins Again

Because so much of what we have come to expect of our country is unraveling, we have an opportunity to build it anew.

December 21, 2023 issue

‘A Trusted Guide’

“I’ve always had a lot more to say about race and inequality than the four corners of any case would allow”

January 7, 2023

When Diversity Matters

During October’s marathon argument in a pair of affirmative action cases, the most racially diverse Supreme Court in US history debated the value of diversity.

January 19, 2023 issue

The End of Roe

A symposium of writers on a future without the right to reproductive freedom.

June 9, 2022 issue

Stealing the Crown Jewels

Justice Alito purports to place the future of abortion in the hands of women voters—despite abetting the disenfranchisement of Black and Latina women.

May 12, 2022

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