There is a long history of Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth flag, but to sum things up: Juneteenth celebrates the ...

Consider, for instance, within the black community, that “woke” refers to “awareness of racial justice.” Yet, outside of it, the term has become a catch-all phrase to bemoan any progressive policy.

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 ...

They whacked Fannie Lou Hamer ... Inside, Martin Luther King Jr., Aaron Henry and Ed King laid out their cases before the Credentials Committee, but it was Hamer's words that riveted the nation ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta ... rights leader Malcolm X at an outdoor rally, in New York City. Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned fierce voting rights ...

The album was recorded in 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the same year Martin Luther King Jr. won the ... a doctor,” said activist Fannie Lou Hamer. And love was the only ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as ... His "We Shall Overcome" is in many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original ...

Former Oregon lawmaker Margaret Carter speaks Monday at the Hyatt Regency in Northeast Portland, Jan. 20, 2024, for Monday's World Arts Foundation Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event. Erik Neumann ...

Levinson on Tuesday also presented the 35th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Spirit ... In 2024, she received the Fannie Lou Hamer Award as an inspirational figure for civil ...

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 ...

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 ...