A Love Story At The Center Of The Civil Rights Movement

MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tells the story of Medgar Evers and his wife Myrlie. Medgar was the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, a state that lynched more Black people than any other. The risks of the job created a lot of tension in their marriage — and after Medgar's 1963 assassination, Myrlie's fury drove her to be an activist herself. And film critic Justin Chang reviews Sinners , the new supernatural thriller by director Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy