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A Q&A with Sherrilyn Ifill | Our national engagement with this history of lynching is a process, and so I think it’s important to offer new opportunities to new generations of readers who want—or maybe will discover they need—to learn more about this important part of our past.
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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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Just because Elena Kagan is white didn’t stop Republicans from injecting race into her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
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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…
Beacon Broadside 