Sherrilyn IfillVerified account

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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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    Joaquin Phoenix calls out systemic racism in the film industry and awards practices in his acceptance speech. I hope his industry listens to his conclusion: that white people have to dismantle the racist practices that they’ve built and profited from.

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  2. This seems like a good time to re-up my THREAD from Sept 2019 on Trump's real record on "criminal justice reform" and the passage of the First Step Act. If you had time to watch Trump's commercial, you have time to read the thread.

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    Given the Trump ad just aired during the Super Bowl, re-sharing our reporting from last year documenting efforts by Trump’s DOJ to lock back up the people freed by Trump’s First Step Act

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    Sunday reminder that the President of the United States routinely insults, name-calls, and bullies critics in terms so juvenile you’d be embarrassed if your first grader did it.

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    My father was assassinated via a gun. My paternal grandmother was shot and killed while sitting in church. I am a survivor. Gun violence, including state-sanctioned and white supremacy fueled gun violence, has extinguished so many lights.

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  7. The Fight to Preserve African-American History | The New Yorker

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    .: The arguments are not the evidence. The evidence is the testimony of the witnesses & documents you show to the jury. From those things the jury must make its decision. The idea that this trial was only arguments of lawyers demonstrates just how absurd it is.

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    Feb 1

    A beautiful choice. Was proud to serve on the Sundance board for multiple terms. I know these folks. Good folks. This makes my heart sing. Big step forward. Congrats to the whole ⁦⁩ family. And brava, ⁦⁩! 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

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    Check out our advisory on Trump’s fourth and latest travel ban. This one adds Nigeria, Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan and Tanzania to the list.

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    Let me fix this headline for you... OUTRAGEOUS: A negligent gun owner allowed a toddler to access their loaded gun, resulting in his death.

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    THE ORIGINAL “OLD SCHOOL” SHIPMASTER - He was strict but Capt Hugh Mulzac was the “real deal”. He even refused command of an all-black “Jim Crow” ship, saying, “I sail integrated or I don’t sail”. In 1942, no less. A true American hero.

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    The genial yet guarded persona of Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902, curtailed not only what he was able to achieve as an artist but what he was able to express as a man.

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