At her husband’s funeral in 1963, Myrlie Evers heard NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins declare, “Medgar Evers believed in his country. It remains to be seen if his country believes in him.” Friday, ...

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 ...

This story was written as part of the WTOP Book Report series authored by Terik King. Read more of that coverage. When Medgar Evers was slain outside his family home on June 12, 1963, he was the first ...

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 ...