May 06 Watch Clarion Call: The Reinvestigation of Civil Rights-Era Crimes Terence Smith reports on how The Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Jackson, Mississippi, prompted the reinvestigation of more than a dozen civil rights-era crimes. Continue watching
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… Continue watching
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
Apr 18 The Freedom Summer Killings By PBS News Hour James Earl Chaney lived in Mississippi his entire life. Michael Schwerner spent six months in the state and Andrew Goodman had been there only a day. Continue reading
Apr 18 The Birmingham Church Bombing By PBS News Hour The 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four young girls, shocked the city of Birmingham and the world. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger's investigative reporter describes how his articles on past racially-motivated killings have led to renewed legal interest in civil rights era crimes. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Bill Minor A correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune who chronicled the civil rights struggle in Jackson, Minor discusses the shift in attitudes he's seen in the city and The Clarion-Ledger. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: Mayor Harvey Johnson The mayor of Jackson, Miss. discusses the evolution his city and the Clarion-Ledger underwent to disavow their segregationist past. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch Extended Interview: John Hammack The Clarion-Ledger's online editor, Hammack has worked for the newspaper on four separate occasions since 1962. In this interview with Terence Smith, he compares the Clarion-Ledger of old with his current workplace. Continue watching
Apr 16 Supreme Court Rejects Leggett Appeal By Admin The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Vanessa Leggett, the Houston-based writer who spent 168 days in prison for refusing to turn over her interviews about a Texas murder case to a federal grand jury. Continue reading