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The assassination of Medgar Evers

An African-American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and archive recordings of psychoanalyst CG Jung. Plus the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin's love of yoga.

An African-American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star, the tragic icon of Iran's reform movement and archive recordings of the psychoanalyst CG Jung. Plus the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin's love of yoga.

Photo:Roy Wilkins and Medgar Evers Being Arrested on 1st June 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. Credit: Getty Images

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