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Myrlie Evers Willimas (Video still/Hassan Washington, theGrio.com)

Medgar murder at 50: His widow speaks of his 'strength'

Todd Johnson
theGRIO VIDEO - Myrlie Evers-Williams remembers that night her husband Medgar was shot on the couple's driveway like it just happened. Last month, she revisited her former home in Jackson, Mississippi, where 50 years ago today, a White Supremacist killed him...
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President Barack Obama embraces Myrlie Evers-Williams during her visit in the Oval Office, June 4, 2013. The President met with the Evers family to commemorate the approaching 50th anniversary of Medgar Evers' death. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Obama meets with Myrlie Evers at White House

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - President Barack Obama met with Myrlie Evers-Williams during her visit in the Oval Office yesterday.
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Actors Jon Hamm, Kiernan Shipka, Jessica Pare, January Jones, John Slattery, and Vincent Kartheiser attend The Paley Center for Media presentation of 'Mad Men' season 5 at The Paley Center for Media on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

'Mad Men' recreates the day MLK died

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theGRIO REPORT - 'Mad Men', the critically acclaimed AMC drama series about advertising executives in the 1960s, recreated an incredibly historic moment in the civil rights struggle on tonight's episode...
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Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, listens as her daughter Reena Evers-Everette announces events commemorating the 50th anniversary of his assassination during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Medgar Evers remembered 50 years after death

Laura Tillman, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her husband is remembered primarily as an assassination victim...
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Martin Luther King Jr

Revisiting MLK's death 45 years later

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - Two years after their re-discovery, restored video footage of Dr. King’s convicted assassin, James Earl Ray, in custody in Memphis as well as on trial, have been released just in time for the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s murder. ..
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In this March 28, 1968 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, lead a march on behalf of striking Memphis, Tenn., sanitation workers. Forty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed supporting a historic sanitation workers strike in Memphis, the city’s garbage and trash collectors are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Sam Melhorn, File)

Decades after MLK's death, Memphis jobs at risk

Adrian Sainz, Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Forty-five years after King was killed supporting their historic strike, some of the same men who marched with him still pick up Memphis' garbage — and now they are fighting to hold on to jobs that some city leaders want to hand over to a private company...
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(L-R) Malia Obama and Sasha Obama arrive during the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term as President of the United States. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Kentucky inmate charge in Obama family threats

Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) - A U.S. inmate is facing federal charges, accused of writing letters threatening the life of President Barack Obama, the first lady and their two daughters...
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Mitchell Kenneth Kusick

Colorado man accused of threats against kids, Obama

Associated Press
DENVER (AP) - A suburban Denver man has been arrested after telling his therapist he wanted to shoot children, kill people on Halloween and kill President Barack Obama, federal court records show...
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Denise Helms

Woman fired after posting racial slur about Obama on Facebook

NBC News
NBC NEWS - A California woman has been fired from her job as an ice cream store manager after she referred to President Barack Obama with a racial slur on Facebook and wrote 'maybe he will get assassinated'...
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Peter Brant II attends the Alexander Wang Spring 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Pier 94 on September 10, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

Billionaire's son jokes about post-election plan to 'kill Obama'

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theGRIO REPORT - The steady stream of ugly reactions to President Barack Obama's re-election continues...
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