The daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy Sr. will join the “Daddy’s Daughters” panel on June 26 in Jackson. It’s the first event of a weeklong series aimed at honoring the slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, will join Ambassador Attallah Shabazz, Bettie Dahmer and Reena Evers-Everette “in a rare and deeply personal dialogue about growing up as daughters of men whose lives were taken in the fight for justice,” organizers said. “Together, they will honor the legacies of Malcolm X, Vernon Dahmer, Medgar Evers, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy—fathers whose leadership and sacrifice shaped history and whose personal love shaped their daughters’ resolve.”
Attallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X. Credit: AP..Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of daughter of Medgar Evers. Credit: Mississippi Today. Bettie Dahmer, daughter of Vernon Dahmer. Credit: Jerry Mitchell.Kennedy called it “a distinct honor” to join these women “whose strength and grace have been forged through profound loss and enduring love, on this panel. Our fathers dedicated their lives to the cause of justice, but they also gave us something even more powerful: the courage to carry forward their hopes and dreams.”
The session, which will anchor the opening night of the “Medgar Evers at 100 Centennial Weekend,” will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex, located at 105 E. Pascagoula St. in Jackson.
The three-day event is honoring the 100th birthday of the legendary civil rights leader, who was assassinated in Jackson in 1963. Shabazz’s father, Malcolm X, was assassinated in Harlem in 1965. A year later, Dahmer’s father, Vernon Sr., died defending his family from a Ku Klux Klan firebombing near Hattiesburg. In 1968, Kennedy was assassinated moments after winning the Democratic Presidential primary in California.
Evers-Everette, executive director of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, called the conversation “a tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Vernon Dahmer, and Medgar Evers— not just as giants in the fight for justice, but as devoted fathers who poured love into our lives. We come together not only to remember, but to continue their unfinished work.”
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