Nation Feb 06 Joy Reid’s ‘Medgar and Myrlie’ traces extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas
Poetry Apr 11 Medgar Evers’ wife revisits his legacy 50 years later During the annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, Myrlie Evers-Williams spoke about how Medgar Evers was killed in front of the house where he died. Watch an excerpt of her speech in the video above. The 14th Congressional Civil… By Anne Azzi Davenport
Nation Jun 05 Watch Honoring Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers, Warrior for U.S. on More Than One Front Honoring Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers, Warrior for U.S. on More Than One Front…
Arts Apr 23 Watch Extended Interview: Myrlie Evers-Williams The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and founder of the Medgar Evers Institute discusses The Clarion-Ledger's role in prompting the first successful prosecution of her husband's 1963 murder. She talked with The NewsHour after speaking to The Clarion-Ledger's…
Apr 18 The Medgar Evers Assassination By PBS News Hour Perhaps the most significant martyr in the struggle for civil rights prior to Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, Medgar Evers galvanized the civil rights movement in his life and also in his death. Continue reading