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Because this is OUR country: Myrlie Evers Williams on Martin Luther King Day

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Myrlie Evers-Williams at the Missouri Theatre in 2015. Photo by Mark Schierbecker, published under Creative Commons license.

She heard the shots ring out, that long-ago summer night. Inside the house, she heard her husband’s car pull up, and then the shots that killed him. One of the bullets came through the living room window, into the house where she and their three small children waited for a father who would never walk in the door again.

At today’s Martin Luther King Day breakfast, Myrlie Evers Williams recalled that night, Continue reading

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