I admire you. Mississippi needs you.

Mississippi needs an infusion of 

vitality, a belief in the future. Mississippi needs to move out of poverty and demoralized lives. They need purpose, dreams and hope to recover their heart and soul to rise to a higher understanding of life.

They need hopelessness removed. They need to believe they are worthy of aspiration and achievement.

They are good people. I know this can happen, especially now.

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. June 11, 2013 (AP)

Myrlie Evers-Williams (click here) acknowledges it would be easy to remain mired in bitterness and anger, 50 years after a sniper's bullet made her a widow....

...Events including a black-tie gala are being held this week to remember Evers, the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was 37 when he was assassinated on June 12, 1963.

"We are cursed as human beings with this element that's called hatred, prejudice and racism," said Evers-Williams, now 80. "But it is my belief that, as it was Medgar's, that there is something good and decent in each and every one of us, and we have to call on that, and we have to find a way to work together."...