Is It Ever to Late to Do the Right Thing…?

In honor of Black History Month, this month’s featured film turns its attention to one of the most painful — and most instructive — chapters of the American civil rights movement. Ghosts of Mississippi revisits the long-delayed pursuit of justice for Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary assassinated in 1963 for his unwavering challenge to white supremacy in the Deep South. For decades, Evers’ killer, Byron De La Beckwith, walked free after two trials ended in hung juries — both decided by all-white panels in a segregated Mississippi courtroom.

Directed by Rob Reiner, Ghosts of Mississippi frames its narrative around the 1989 reopening of the case by Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter (played by Alec Baldwin), prompted by the quiet persistence and moral clarity of Myrlie Evers (played byWhoopi Goldberg), Medgar Evers’ widow. The film is not simply a courtroom drama — it is a meditation on institutional failure, racial injustice, and the staggering emotional cost of delayed accountability. As Mississippi is forced to confront its past, the film asks a larger, unsettling question: what does justice mean when it arrives decades too late?

This Featured Film Blog of the month will explore Ghosts of Mississippi not just as a film, but as a historical intervention — examining where it succeeds in honoring the civil rights struggle, where it simplifies complex truths, and why its story remains urgently relevant during Black History Month and beyond. You can find a critique, recommendation, and review that try to answer all of these questions about the Featured Film Blog on our blog site. There is also an interview from 1996 with Rob Reiner and Charlie Rose discussing Ghosts of Mississippi. There is also a Top Ten List to commemorate the film being the monthly Featured Film Blog, with My Top Ten Black History Movies. And finally, you can watch the Official Trailer for Ghosts of Mississippi, and then plan on watching it on Netflix!

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Ghosts of Mississippi is available now on Netflix…