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...

Myrlie and Medgar Evers’ civil rights struggle still matters today

Blair L. M. Kelley

OPINION - Perhaps it seems that President Barack Obama is simply honoring the fifty-year anniversary of the death of Medgar Evers -- with no greater symbolism implied -- by inviting his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration...

How WWII vets helped lead the civil rights fight

Ronda Racha Penrice

theGRIO REPORT - Black veterans, especially those who fought in World War II, served critical roles in raising national and international awareness about Jim Crow...

Navy ship named for civil rights leader Medgar Evers

theGrio

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new Navy ship that has been named in honor of the slain civil rights leader...

Slideshow: Icons of black American independence

Deron Dalton

SLIDESHOW - With the upcoming celebration of Independence Day, there are activists who paved the way for our independence as a people...

Why the Freedom Riders matter more than ever

Angela Tuck

OPINION - What must it have been like to board segregated buses 50 years ago, when indignities and insults were the norm?...

Disgraced Mississippi judge reports to federal prison

theGrio

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bobby DeLaughter, a former Mississippi prosecutor and judge whose legal conquests became the subject of books and a movie, reported to federal prison...