Everlasting: The Legacy Podcast

Rita Brent interviews Jerry Mitchell about how his investigative journalism finally brought justice to the Evers family, as well as many other families affected by racial violence during the Civil Rights Movement.

Through the words of Myrlie Evers-Williams, we hear about what happened in the days, months, and years that followed the assassination of Medgar Evers

For the last section of this three-part interview, Taiwo Gaynor and Dr. Michael Vinson Williams discuss how the life and works of Medgar Wiley Evers continued after his death, and what his legacy means to us today."

In this special episode, Rita Brent sits down with Dr. Daphne Chamberlain, Executive Director of the Emmett Till Interpretative Center, and Raylawni Branch, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, to have a conversation about the role of women in the ongoing fight for Civil Rights.

Host Rita Brent interviews Olivia Spann, Supervisory Park Ranger at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and gets a tour of the house. We also hear from Reena Evers-Everette about what it was like growing up in the house, as well as her firsthand account of the events the night of June 12th, 1963. 

In this second part of the extended interview, Taiwo Gaynor and Dr. Michael Vinson Williams discuss Medgar Evers' work as Mississippi’s first NAACP Field Secretary and the exposure and mounting pressure that came with the position.

Drs. Mark Henderson and Ebony Lumumba from Jackson State University breathe life into the 1958 Ebony article, “Why I Live in Mississippi”, which offers a look into Medgar Evers' professional and personal life. Afterward, Host Rita Brent speaks with them about why they live in Mississippi.

In the first section of this episode, Host Rita Brent details the story of Medgar Evers’ attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi Law School, and in the second section, Rita sits down with Dr. Stephanie Rolph and Dr. John Spann to further discuss the subject of integration in 1950s Mississippi.