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Category: On the Courthouse Lawn
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Sherrilyn Ifill asks women who are trying to have it “all” to get behind economic empowerment for the women who face the biggest challenges.
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Lynching victims were not metaphors. They were real people who suffered unimaginably.
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With the media’s attention on Snyder v. Phelps, Sherrilyn Ifill looks at a Supreme Court case with broader-reaching implications.
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Sometimes, you just can’t be cynical. Sometimes – even though you know that we still have a long way to go, that the work of achieving a racially just society is far from over, even though you don’t subscribe to the messianic fervor that sometimes surrounds talk of about this presidential campaign – sometimes you…
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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill In the flush of the current presidential campaign, when crowds of blacks and whites caught up in Obama fever chant together, “race doesn’t matter,” and even the mainstream media seems delirious with the possibility that the U.S. may be poised to elect its first black president, it’s hard to remember that…
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Halloween is a time for "gallows humor," but macabre displays of fake bodies swaying from trees are not a laughing matter for those who understand the legacy of lynching in America. From Crystal Lake, Florida, to Stratford, Connecticut, hanging dummies have been stirring up debate and protest. This year, however, we’ve had almost non-stop news…
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