President Obama today offered a tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., while also imploring all Americans to remember that the work of the iconic civil rights leader remains unfinished. “The arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own,” Obama said on the steps of the… Continue reading From Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama – 50 Years Later
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50 Years Later, Medgar Evers Is Finally Honored
Nearly half a century since his murder, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was honored in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Gwen Ifill examines the life and legacy of Evers — a World War II veteran and the NAACP’s first field secretary in the South — with Jerry Mitchell of The Clarion-Ledger newspaper.