Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare, “Medgar Evers believed in his ...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered outside his Jackson home in 1963, was honored by President Joe Biden on Friday. He was named one of 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...

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 ...

It has been more than 60 years since civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was gunned down in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. And it has been 30 years since Evers' killer, Byron De La ...

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 ...

Black America has always had a complicated “love story” with America, MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid told me in our recent "Salon Talks" conversation. “It is difficult," Reid said, "because you understand ...

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. This video is no longer available. When Medgar Evers was slain outside his family home ...

Everlasting honors Medgar Evers’ legacy, offering a moving portrait of his civil rights fight. EVERLASTING: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers - An MPB Original Production honoring the life, work, and ...