Medgar Evers: He Taught His Kids To Crawl So We Could Stand - Paperback

by Katina Rankin (Author)

"Crawling Leads To Walking, But To Walk One Must Stand" Medgar Evers: "He Taught His Kids To Crawl So We Could Stand" looks at moments in time - our history, racial past, even our current state of politics. It's a riveting story, told in fittingly kid-friendly language, that explores how power and superiority corrupts everyone: those new to it and those resisting its loss. In Medgar Evers: "He Taught His Kids To Crawl So We Could Stand" - Katina Rankin teaches children that history's mistakes can linger if we aren't willing to stand up and tell the truth - that there will always be abuses of power, unless we jointly take a knee to prove a point, and that the arc of the universe doesn't bend toward justice unless we're willing to do the work even if it includes crawling to get the pendulum of justice to swing toward honesty. Each page filled with words of its era, pictures and quotes intertwined into the conversational setting of a loving family's home. The storytelling provides deeper insight for children than some history books. The author supplies an in-depth analysis of civil rights through a family's dialogue of various aspects of the movement often just glossed over in classroom school text books. Medgar Evers: "He Taught His Kids To Crawl So We Could Stand" also teaches kids now is always the time to do what's right. And, it gives children hope teaching them justice delayed is not justice denied.

Author Biography

Katina Rankin, a native of Magee, Mississippi, is an Emmy-nominated journalist. She received her bachelor's degree in mass communications from Alcorn State University and her master's degree in broadcast journalism from Jackson State University. While attending ASU, Katina began her journalism career as an intern at WLBT. After six years on the air in Mississippi, Katina's career led her to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, where she co-anchored the main newscast at Eyewitness News. During her journalism career, Katina has covered everything from the Mississippi murder trials of Byron De La Beckwith and Sam Bowers to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in Texas. She has featured local Miss America Pageant contestants by following them to Atlantic City, and she has traveled to San Antonio for the Final Four tournaments. Katina's daily reports about the impact of Hurricane Katrina included an in-depth interview with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. She also interviewed notable figures and broke many stories in the lacrosse rape investigation at Duke University in North Carolina. Katina has interviewed former NAACP president Myrlie Evers, presidential candidate John Edwards, the late Rosa Parks and blues legend B.B. King. Katina also distinguished herself as a journalist by earning several news awards including an emmy nomination. After more than seventeen years in broadcast and print media, Katina felt entrepreneurial, and she founded Katina Rankin Enterprises (KRE), a public relations firm. Katina's public relations work took her to three countries: Israel, Egypt, and Palestine. Katina has given back to the community by speaking to hundreds of church groups, schools, and universities through the years. She has also taught writing classes at Jackson State University. Additionally, Katina has given the commencement address at Alcorn State University. And she was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the National Association of Black Journalists. Katina has authored and published "Up North, Down South: City Folk Meet Country Folk," a children's book. Katina's first in a series of children's civil rights books: "Emmett Till: Sometimes Good Can Come Out of a Bad Situation" was published in June 2018. Katina has been named Mississippi's Woman of the Year and Shero of the Year for her work with women and children.