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Myrlie Evers

Medgar Evers

Myrlie Evers-Williams: NAACP is sorry

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - It's been 50 years since Medgar Evers was murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, but the pain is still raw for his widow, Myrlie Evers Williams...
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Myrlie Evers (Courtesy Politics Nation)

Medgar Evers' widow: 'Jim Crow is alive'

Morgan Whitaker, Politics Nation
VIDEO - On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights hero Medgar Evers, his widow Myrlie Evers-Williams says segregation has not disappeared...
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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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Myrlie Evers-Williams gives the invocation as U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden look on 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 Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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...
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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...
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