Vicksburg residents have an opportunity for an evening of film, conversation, and inspiration this Saturday at the Strand ...

She co-owned and edited the Memphis Free Speech newspaper ... Field: Voting Rights Fannie Lou Hamer knew the price of speaking truth in the Deep South. A sharecropper turned powerhouse activist ...

On location at the NJEA Convention, Steve Adubato speaks with artist and activist Robert Shetterly, creator of the "Americans Who Tell the Truth" portrait series. They discuss his inspiration for ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a force to be reckoned with. Enduring intractable racism, police beatings, and even forced sterilization, she never stopped working for equal voting rights for all.

Denenberg was so impressed that he bought two of his self-portraits ... faces of civil rights champions like Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used singing to promote community and fight for voting rights. Hamer's life and legacy are celebrated in the new Kentucky Opera production ...

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED. >> THE FAMOUS LINE, DELIVERED IN DECEMBER 1964 BY FANNIE LOU HAMER, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, SPEAKING FROM THE HEART IN HER ...

And the second verse finds Marley referencing a speech by Marcus Garvey, urging listeners to "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds." Like many of the ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

Robert F. Kennedy, public science educator Bill Nye, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be awarded ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Caitlin Cass talked about Fannie Lou Hamer's contributions to civil rights. Author Caitlin Cass talked about Fannie Lou Hamer's ...