President Obama chooses Myrlie Evers-Williams to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration on January 21, 2013

President Barack Obama has chosen Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, to deliver the invocation at his second inauguration on Jan. 21. Pictured here: NAN honoree Myrlie Evers-Williams on the 40th Anniversary of Dr. King’s death at NAN’s Keepers of the Dream Awards, along with Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III (April 4, 2008)