Sherrilyn Ifill - What Happened to the Voting Rights Act? | The Daily Show
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Civil rights lawyer and founding director of Howard Law School's 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, Sherrilyn Ifill, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act. They talk about how the reinstatement for purposeful discrimination overturned the court’s own precedent, how the Voting Rights Act protects the voting strength of minorities and their candidates of choice, and the dangerous potential for Trump and Republicans to redistrict using this precedent in an effort to turn seats in the House.
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Civil rights lawyer and founding director of Howard Law School's 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy, Sherrilyn Ifill, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act. They talk about how the reinstatement for purposeful discrimination overturned the court’s own precedent, how the Voting Rights Act protects the voting strength of minorities and their candidates of choice, and the dangerous potential for Trump and Republicans to redistrict using this precedent in an effort to turn seats in the House.
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Under the Blacklight Ep. 49 - Confronting Callais: Backtalkers United To Fight For Democracy
African American Policy Forum
May 5, 2026
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On Monday, May 4th at 3pm ET, AAPF hosted a special Under the Blacklight session and live recording of Intersectionality Matters! with thinkers and advocates who refuse to remain silent as the Second Reconstruction is dismantled. This episode arrives on the eve of the release of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new memoir Backtalker as a reminder that when the state uses colorblind language to dilute Black power, we cannot remain silent. Polite silence is a death knell for racial justice. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, our democracy faces a structural emergency. By weaponizing colorblindness to strike down majority-Black districts, the Court's radical unraveling of the Civil Rights Movement effectively erases Black political representation under the guise of neutrality, ignoring the systemic racism the VRA was built to dismantle. In Backtalker, Crenshaw explains how CRT and intersectionality were forged specifically to confront the very logic used in the Court’s ruling: the false idea that ignoring race will somehow lead to justice. Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) President Kaye Wise Whitehead moderated the conversation with AAPF Executive Director Kimberle Crenshaw, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson, and AAPF Senior Fellow Tim Wise. As the legal ground shifts beneath us, Backtalker provides the intellectual and activist toolkit necessary to make sense of this moment and fight for a future that recognizes the society we need, grounded in our full, intersectional realities. Join us for the urgent analysis of the decision and a discussion as to why, at this moment, "backtalking" to power rather than “bending the knee” is a democratic necessity. In addition to their prescient insights, they will uplift resources from our Backtalkers United book clubs and our upcoming virtual summer school program Backtalkers Academy, as unique opportunities to access the tools and ideas needed to rebuild our institutions and democracy from the ground-up. The time for backtalkers to unite to fight is now.
