it mainly revolves around figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. But did you ever hear about Fannie Lou Hammer? She wasn't just a civil rights ...

MLK DAY CONCERT — VOTING WITH PURPOSE AND WITHOUT FEAR On Sunday, the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington is hosting a concert in honor of MLK Jr. Day and in celebration of the lives of ...

The 29th Fannie Lou Hamer Awards Reception will honor ... the invocation at the 2023 National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, which featured President Joe Biden as the keynote ...

Today she is the director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection ... Some names have become well known, ...

Washington, D.C. marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. a bit early ... like civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer and Rosa Parks. WANDA THOMPSON: Black women, don't let anybody tell ...

Special guest Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye will perform an excerpt from her award-winning show, “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story.” The 2025 winners of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. essay-writing contest ...

if you’re thinking about Martin Luther King Jr. and you’re thinking about Malcolm X, you also need to be thinking about Fannie Lou Hamer. Q: What does the candidacy of Vice President Kamala ...

Though not a Catholic, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deserves to have his ... The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rev. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Bayard ...

It was Martin Luther King ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and ...