Sherrilyn Ifill Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Sherrilyn Ifill is a civil rights lawyer and law professor. Former President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense Fund). Sr Fellow, Ford Foundation. Tweets are my own. Also at: @ifilljustice@mastodon.social

22 books

American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time

Tracy K. Smith

Sherrilyn Ifill

I read this marvelous poem by @JerichoBrown for the first time last month in Tracy K. Smith’s “American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time.” For some, our mothers; for others our grandmothers or great grans. May we never forget their names. #MothersDay https://t.co/8dROc84F3F

Paperback, 2018

$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

Sherrilyn Ifill

For more, read Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Govt Segregated America.

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The Great Historic Families of Scotland

James Taylor

Sherrilyn Ifill

@ThatEricAlper Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 - James Taylor Testimony: Vol 1 - India Arie Comedia - Hector Lavoe Field Songs - Fertile Ground Mystery Lady - Etta James A Donny Hathaway Collection - Donny Hathaway For Those in Love - Dinah Washington Sassy Swings the Tivoli - Sarah Vaughn

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--And How to Cure It

Richard L. Hasen

Sherrilyn Ifill

Looking forward to reading @rickhasen’s #CheapSpeech. https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1500129628144369666

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Trouble in Mind

Alice Childress

Sherrilyn Ifill

I love Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind. When it ran ⁦@centerstage_md⁩ w/E. Faye Butler I saw it 5 times. This Bdway production w/⁦ ⁦@laChanze⁩ is superb. Negotiated interracial spaces brimming w/tension; the demand for dignity; the privilege of ignorance, and… https://t.co/0gXT6DZ2Fl

Paperback, 2022

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

Sherrilyn Ifill

Also @SenatorDurbin encouraged folks to read @Gilbert_King’s Devil In The Grove, the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Marshall & @NAACP_LDF’s representation of Black men shot and framed by a racist sheriff in Groveland, FL. https://t.co/YNEqoZEYmy

Paperback, 2013

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

In the Eye of the Wild

Nastassja Martin

Sherrilyn Ifill

Well, just finished Nastassja Martin’s “In The Eye Of The Wild” - one of the most challenging, haunting, astonishingly beautiful memoirs I’ve ever read. https://t.co/cg8qBSjAkQ

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Pomegranate

Helen Elaine Lee

Sherrilyn Ifill

Such a great party to celebtate Helen Elaine Lee’s new book “Pomegranate.” One of those wonderful gatherings in our nation’s Capitol. Thanks to our hosts @smalonemd & @LawProfButler. https://t.co/0gS3J0WUUC

Paperback, 2024

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Cicely Tyson: Epitome of Elegance and Humanity: Cicely Tyson's Life Elegance Cicely Tyson's Biography Facts about Cicely Tyson Impor, Joan Wesley

Cicely Tyson: Epitome of Elegance and Humanity: Cicely Tyson's Life Elegance Cicely Tyson's Biography Facts about Cicely Tyson Impor

Joan Wesley

Sherrilyn Ifill

#CicelyTyson powerfully presented deep, abiding, beautiful Black love on screen. Remember her love for Joe Pittman in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman? Remember 100 yr old Jane says “there have been a few men since but none could touch” her love for Joe Pittman. Shivers. https://t.co/16Egz5C3P6

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The age we Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time: 1

James Taylor

Sherrilyn Ifill

Paperback, 2018

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book