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Fraternity Boots Bro Who Made Monkey Noises at Black Ole Miss Protester
The Daily Beast· 2 days agoThe University of Mississippi student who was seen on video making monkey noises and jumping up and...
The City's 'Economic Development Week' kicks off this week. See what's planned
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo Finance· 17 hours agoEvers was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. In 1963, he was shot in the back by...
How Medgar Evers shaped Amos Brown
The San Francisco Examiner· 2 hours agoAmos Brown considers Medgar Evers his mentor, the catalyst for a life devoted to the civil rights movement. After all, Evers was the ...
Another first for Wisconsin civil rights leader Vel Phillips: Statue in capitol | Opinion
Gannett via AOL· 1 week agoNot only did the state Capitol and Executive Residence Board vote unanimously to recommend the placement of a statue of Phillips on & ...
Biden to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 politicians, activists, athletes and more
Associated Press· 4 days agoClarence B. Jones says he thought a prankster was on the line when he answered the telephone and...
Bennie Thompson applauds posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Medgar Evers
The Hill via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) was just a boy when civil rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down...
Civil rights leader Daisy Bates and singer Johnny Cash to replace Arkansas statues at U.S. Capitol
Los Angeles Times· 20 hours agoThe statues that had stood there for more than 100 years were obscure figures in the state’s...
SFR Wins Five Awards in SPJ’s Top of the Rockies Competition
Santa Fe Reporter· 2 days agoThis year’s competition garnered more than 1,900 entries from more than 80 news media outlets and 30 freelancers in all four states. SFR competes in the ...
Civil rights leader, Mississippi native Medgar Evers posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of...
The Vicksburg Post· 4 days agoMississippi native and civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday. Evers, who was murdered ...