Video above: Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers and King of the Blues, B.B. King were given a centennial celebration for all of their contributions to Mississippi.In honor of Black History Month ...

At Medgar Evers College, a middle-aged mother of three stood up from the crowd during the “Daughters of the Legacy” event to pose a question to special guests Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of Medgar ...

Medgar Evers was one of the most influential figures in the Civil Rights Movement. Evers' assassination in the carport of his Jackson home, now a national monument, in 1963 is considered the first ...

July 2 was the 100th anniversary of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers’ birth. He's remembered each year during the NAACP’s national convention, which opened in Charlotte last week. As the first ...

World War II veteran Medgar Evers, whom President Trump called “a great American hero,” has been erased from the Arlington National Cemetery website, which featured a section honoring Black Americans ...

REMEMBER THE MOVEMENT AND THE MAN WHOSE SACRIFICE HELPED SHAPE AMERICA. WHILE WE ARE HERE TO CELEBRATE . WE'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH THOSE WHO'S STORY'S ARE NOT ONLY PIVOTAL ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Big Apple Inn in Jackson fuses cultures together. Geno Lee, fourth generation owner of this well-loved establishment, says that in the 1930s, his great-grandfather moved ...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran, was murdered in 1963 after years of fighting for equality. The Pentagon plans to remove Evers' name, along with other civil rights icons, from Navy ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Hundreds of Jackson residents gathered to celebrate what would have been Medgar Evers’ 100th birthday at the Jackson Convention Complex Center. Saturday was the second day of ...

This is an opinion column. If you haven’t yet discerned it, I’m a history nerd. Especially now. Especially amid efforts to obfuscate the realities of our nation’s complex history that make some folks ...