Political commentator and New York Times best-selling author Joy Reid is joined by veteran reporter April Ryan for a conversation around Reid’s book "Medgar and Myrlie: A Love Story That Awakened America." Representing Delta Sigma Theta, Reid and Ryan’s friendship is electric, recorded live in April 2024 at a full house at the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple. Reid and Ryan discuss “Medgar and Myrlie,” which chronicles the lives and love story of civil rights icons Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams and the crucial groundwork they laid for Black Americans that still reverberates today.

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PHOTO: Joy Reid and April Ryan on stage at the First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple at the Chicago Humanities Spring Festival in 2024.

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