From Mississippi-A half-century after the assassination of Medgar Evers and the March on Washington, the Episcopal Church is hosting a Jackson-based, nationwide webcast “50 Years Later: The State of Racism in America.”
“PBS NewsHour” anchor Ray Suarez will moderate the 90-minute forum live at 1 p.m. Friday from St. Andrews’ Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Jackson and will include discussions with Evers’ widow, Myrlie Evers, former Mississippi Gov. William Winter and Randy Testa, vice president for education at Walden Media, which produced the film “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.”
The forum coincides with a recent Harris Interactive online poll that found nearly all Americans feel some discrimination exists.
African Americans were three times as likely as other Americans to feel there is a “great deal” of discrimination.
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