As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

The last 15 years witnessed an explosion of first-rate biographies of major Black women leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Sojourner Truth and most recently Harriet Tubman. Now ...

The administration will likely attempt to unshackle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage guarantors, from their current position as wards of the state, analysts believe and Scott Turner ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend on Oct. 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta area, and Hamer ...

Shares of housing giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were on pace for a second day of gains as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pointed to the importance of 30-year fixed-rate guaranteed ...

Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac help keep the mortgage market stable by buying home loans, selling mortgage-backed securities and establishing lending guidelines. The Trump administration wants to turn ...

His roots in civil rights activism run deep, having worked alongside icons like Fannie Lou Hamer in the 1960s to register Black voters throughout the Mississippi Delta. This early experience ...

Investors are bullish it could finally happen, with shares of Fannie quadrupling since his election. Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC agrees, saying it's time for Fannie and Freddie to go ...

Fannie Mae provided significant liquidity across key housing segments in 2024, including more than $6.3 billion in Multifamily Affordable Housing, $4.7 billion in Small Loans, $1.3 billion in ...