You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea

It's been fifty years, today.  Fifty years since a cowardly product of this state's wretched obsession with hate and self-destruction lashed out and killed a man dreaming of and working for a better future for us all.

Mr. Evers' dedication to Mississippi and those of us who live here was staggering. May God bless the soul of Medgar Evers, may He comfort those who loved him, and may He give us the strength to continue the work Mr. Evers could not complete.

Evers to deliver invocation at Presidential Inauguration

For fans of the progress we've made here in Mississippi over the last few decades, this is big news.  Myrlie Evers, widow of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers, has been chosen to give the invocation at President Obama's Inauguration on January 21st.

Congratulations, Mrs. Evers.