Recommended Reading: Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/

Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer, former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and now a law professor at Howard University. Her newsletter examines pressing issues in American democracy through her legal and institutional experience.

Each post provides timely analysis of threats to democratic institutions, such as court rulings, voting restrictions, policing policy, and the misuse of power. In one of her most powerful posts, she explains how America's permissiveness towards police misconduct and racial disparities in the criminal legal system laid the foundation for our current democratic crisis. Another piece focuses on how efforts to downplay race and gender are weakening democracy.

Ifill explains what is happening, where it comes from, and what the legal or civic responses should be. Her coverage connects specific events to broader patterns in American political life. She links court decisions to shifts in power. And she highlights what lawyers, civic groups, and citizens can do in response. That analytical approach is exactly the kind that someone tracking democratic erosion or seeking to understand institutional resilience will find useful.

In short, Sherrilyn’s Newsletter delivers consistent, experience-based insight from a leading civil rights attorney who has spent decades defending democracy. It provides sharp legal context, connects current events to structural risks, and points to actions that uphold democratic norms.