In a new biography, the MSNBC host offers an intimate look at Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, both civil rights leaders in their own right. By Wilson Wong Joy-Ann Reid didn’t set out to ...

A love story is helping paint a fuller picture of the civil rights movement. Activist Medgar Evers was killed in 1963 by a white supremacist outside his home in Mississippi. His murder thrust Myrlie ...

The host of MSNBC's The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating ...

MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America. By Joy-Ann Reid. Mariner Books. 352 pages. $30. On June 12, 1963, some six months before the assassination of President John ...

NPR's Ed Gordon talks to legendary civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about The Autobiography of Medgar Evers a book about her late... Widow Talks About 'Autobiography of Medgar Evers' ED ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studio portrait of slain American civil rights activist Medgar Evers (1925 - 1963) early 1960s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty ...

Guidelines for the art contest, sponsored by the group Freedom 250, include material about abolitionists and civil rights leaders, but little mention of what they fought against. By Jennifer ...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran, was murdered in 1963 after years of fighting for equality. The Pentagon plans to remove Evers' name, along with other civil rights icons, from Navy ...

MSNBC host Reid (The Man Who Sold America) presents a moving dual biography of civil rights icon Medgar Evers (1925–1963) and his wife, Myrlie, born in 1933. The two met and fell in love in 1950 as ...