The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute is giving you the chance to reflect on Medgar's impact with a national contest. Participants across the country are asked to share their voices in a special ...

Many people likely see the work of Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers as having a profound impact on the progression of civil rights for Black Americans over the past 70 years. And as of July 2, the day ...

>> ALL RIGHT. BETHEL, THANKS. WELL, TODAY MARKS 62 YEARS SINCE MEDGAR EVERS WAS ASSASSINATED IN THE DRIVEWAY OF HIS JACKSON HOME. 16 WAPT S ERIN PICKENS IS IN THE STUDIO TONIGHT. SHE TALKED TO HIS ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American ...

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 ...

Inside the home, Evers hosted meetings for voter registration drives and coordinated economic boycotts. Organizers commended ...

Medgar Evers remembered on what would have been his 101st birthday ...

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 ...

At 90, Myrlie Evers-Williams still speaks in a clear, strong voice as she says she terribly misses her first love, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, and as she reflects on his work — and her own — to ...

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 ...