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NAACP Board Honors Evers' Memory in Miss. Capital
started Wednesday night and goes through Saturday. It includes a wreath-laying ceremony and a gospel concert to remember Medgar Evers . The Mississippi NAACP field secretary was assassinated 50 years ago outside his family home in north Jackson. The ceremony
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Alec Baldwin to Be Old Dad, Perhaps a Better Parentthe wedding or be able to have a first beer – they'll be dead," said Ethan Gologor , a psychologist and professor at Medgar Evers College at the City University of New York. Gologor agreed old dads can be better fathers. "Like so many other things
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Inauguration Day 2013: President Obama's Second Inauguralthe inaugural committee. The Inaugural Prayer 11:32 a.m. Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers , is former head of the NAACP. Sen. Lamar Alexander 11:44 a.m. The Republican senator is the only Tennessean ever
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The Fiscal Cliff's Winners And Losers (The Note)INAUGURATION UPDATE: The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced today that Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers , has been selected to deliver the invocation and Rev. Louie Giglio, the pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, has
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Breast Cancer Survivor Allowed to Swim Topless at Seattle Poolclass, as well as Jaecks' partner (Jaecks is gay), suggested swimming as a possible fitness option. She recommended the Medgar Evers Pool because it was the warmest and least chlorinated pool in town, which was very appealing to Jaecks. Jaceks went searching
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Sidewalks Become BattlegroundsIn March, James Smith, 68, was killed when an SUV, struck by another vehicle, plowed into his motorized wheelchair on Medgar Evers Boulevard, one of Jackson's main thoroughfares. Where they exist, the sidewalks often are in such disrepair as to be
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'Mad Men' Gets It Right: Booze, Sex, SecretsDylan in America." That year the civil rights movement was in full swing, and murdered Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers appears in Betty Draper's twilight sleep as she gives birth to baby Gene. That movement was "a cultural resonance gripping
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'Dangerously Funny' by David Biancullithe first black comic to headline in all-white nightclubs, but also demonstrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers in history-making confrontations in Montgomery and Selma. Still another was George Carlin, whose infamous "Seven Words
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WATCH: President Obama's NAACP Address
also explore innovative approaches being pursued here in New York City; innovations like Bard High School Early College and Medgar Evers College Preparatory School that are challenging students to complete high school and earn a free associate's degree or
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Where King Preached, Obama's the Word
stands, from "Jewish immigrants who came through the Holocaust and said, 'Never again,' " to slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers , "who died in his driveway fighting for freedom." He added a caution: "Joseph was a dreamer. And so his brothers tried
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For many, a sense that a new era is here
Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers , said he "shed tears thinking about how far we about our brother who gave his life for this." Medgar Evers was shot to death in 1963 because of his civil rights
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Just the Other Day
some of us, we’ve seen what we saw in 1968. We saw three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964. We saw Medgar Evers shot down in his garage; we saw a little teenaged boy, Emmitt Till, murdered and thrown in the river; we saw four little girls blown up in a church
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Historic night: Democrats unite around Obama
whose delegation in 1964 challenged the party to seat black delegates. "When I think about (civil rights activist) Medgar Evers , who lost his life registering people to vote — we have come a long way in this country, and we need a man like Barack
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Myrlie Evers-Williams Delivers Inaugural PrayerEvers is former head of the NAACP and wife of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers .
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At Inauguration, Freedom Riders Reflect on Past: 'There Is Hope'Laws in the face of progress much at the risk of not only being jailed and beaten by mobs all the cops that in the case of Medgar Evers . Even death so it was really emotional for years ago where Joan and Reginald. Give their thoughts. Right here after the
by mobs all the cops that -- -- in the case of Medgar Evers . Even death so it was really emotional for years ago where Joan and Reginald. Give their thoughts. Right here after the inauguration -
'The Help' Parallels Woman's Real Storysteadiness and consistency. Yet in Jackson Mississippi Elizabeth was growing up amidst I racial discontent. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers had been murdered just four miles from Elizabeth's home. And public schools were resisting forced integration. My parents
was growing up amidst -- I -- racial discontent. Civil rights leader Medgar Evers had been murdered just four miles from Elizabeth's home. And public schools were resisting forced integration. My parents kept us in the
