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Till's brutal 1955 murder in the Jim Crow South helped spark the civil rights movement. For decades, Hollywood deemed it too volatile to dramatize.

The docudrama "Women of the Movement" and the docuseries "Let the World See" premiere this week on ABC.

The City Sentinel March 28, 2021 By Patrick B. McGuigan Patrick B. McGuigan, Southwest Ledger OKLAHOMA CITY– Just after deadline for last week’s story (“Starting to get down in the weeds”), much of the medical...

By Cherranda Smith Dec 14, 2020 “The new monument commemorates the legacy of two civil rights activists who, from their modest, 3-bedroom ranch home, devoted their lives to ending racial injustice and improving the quality of life for African Americans.”  Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie Evers-Williams as a national historic monument.  The announcement was made Thursday (December 10) by US Secretary of the Interior The National Park Service obtained the property earlier this year on June 18 after Tougaloo College transferred the deed of the home. Evers was fatally shot in the drivew...

Mr. Evers, the first field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Mississippi, led voter-registration drives and boycotts against segregation before he was shot and killed at age 37 outside his home by a white supremacist. Mr. Evers, a World War II Army veteran, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. His wife Myrlie Evers, now 87, later served as national chair of the NAACP and delivered the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. The national monument, which was authorized by Congress and signed into ...