John Lewis “stood for everything that is good.”

Myrlie Evers remembered Congressman John Lewis as a fearless civil rights leader who “stood for everything that is good, everything that is strong and everything that is merciful.”

News, Civil RIghts, Mississippi NewsKatherine MitchellJuly 20, 2020Mississippi Center for Investigative ReportingMyrlie Evers, Civil Rights, John Lewis, Congressman John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King, King, Freedom Riders, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Bloody Sunday, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Jeff Steinberg

Confederate battle flag comes down in Mississippi; Myrlie Evers weeps. ‘Medgar’s wings must be clapping.’

Myrlie Evers began to weep when she heard the Mississippi Legislature vote to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

News, Civil RIghts, Mississippi NewsKatherine MitchellJune 28, 2020Mississippi Center for Investigative ReportingMyrlie Evers, Medgar Evers, Civil Rights, Mississippi Flag, Mississippi legislature, confederate flag, Mississippi House, Mississippi Senate, Tate Reeves, In God We Trust, Mississippi state flag

A pandemic has hit America. When are we going to deal with it?

The pandemic started far from our nation, but the disease soon struck our shores.

Our leaders downplayed the possible harm, and before long, Americans began to be infected at an alarming rate.

George Floyd’s killing resurrects nightmares for families of civil rights martyrs

The scenes play over and over again in the mind of civil rights pioneer Myrlie Evers.

A white police officer in Minneapolis kneels on the neck of a black man who keeps saying, “I can’t breathe,” until he lies motionless.