Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer ... question might be that Hamer, while a powerful leader in her own community, was not only working class, but remained working class. Unlike middle-class activists ...

When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support ... satisfaction of seeing a Mississippi Negro woman like Fannie Lou Hamer emerge as a leader, or that meeting in Canton yesterday.

“It was very traumatizing for me,” she said, and it brought to her mind how past Civil Rights leaders had been jailed: Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X. “There is a moment ...

Consider, for instance, within the black community, that “woke” refers to “awareness of racial justice.” Yet, outside of it, ...

Mississippi is the land of Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers ... Trump’s inauguration is betraying the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year’s presidential inauguration happens to ...

As a charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, he knew The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. personally. Last week, as the country celebrated the life of the slain civil rights leader ...

A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement passed away this week.

When Martin Luther King, Jr. announced a Harlem press conference in June, the son of a jazz-loving transit cop threw up his hand to cover the inspirational leader. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A longtime civil rights leader and personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., died on Saturday. Peters, 92, was born in Connecticut and was a founding ...

Video: Arkansas MLK Jr. Commission holds several events on Martin Luther King Jr. Day LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission is launching a program to fight ...

And that, sir, is a moral disgrace." Kennedy shot back that President Donald Trump shares the same vision for the nation as Martin Luther King Jr. "Congressman, President Trump's vision of this ...