Joy-Ann Reid didn’t set out to publish her best-selling third book, “Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America” — which chronicles the lives of the prominent activists of the same name — in February, a month dedicated to both romance and Black history. “It’s a civil rights love story that gets released, you know, in the month of love,” the MSNBC journalist said in a phone interview, a day after Valentine’s. To tell this slice of this country’s history, one of racial segregation and violence, through the lens of a couple’s bond may not be an obvious choice. But for Reid, who waxes lyrical about Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, there wasn’t an alternative. “In talking with Myrlie about Medgar Evers, what comes through most is how in love with him she still is, and how he was truly the love of her life,” said Reid, who conducted more than a half-dozen interviews with Evers-Williams.

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