Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy's biography of Paul O'Dwyer examines ... watching the local polls to help out civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. It’s 1968 and he’s manhandled by Chicago ...

It’s 1967: O’Dwyer is in segregated Alligator, Mississippi, watching the local polls to help out civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer ... O’Dwyer’s life is “relevant to understanding ...

Temples are hallowed ground, sheltering a community’s most coveted religious or cultural artifacts. Ancient Greece cultivated ...

Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

The Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop (FSWW), in partnership with Zoomcatchers and The Billie Holiday Theatre, has announced an ...

Famed voting rights and anti-poverty activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, despised Planned Parenthood and branded abortion “genocide” in the black community. Hamer was a pro-life, adoptive mother ...

Juneteenth is a national day of celebration, but the holiday is too big for just June 19. Around the D.C. region, events take place on the weekends before and after, as well on Juneteenth itself — the ...

And even though it was apparent, another truth was equally clear in late 2023: that if it wasn’t going to be Biden, it was very likely to be Harris, and that prospect, in the early months of ...

Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School is a public school located in Bronx, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School is 227 and the school serves 6-8.

How Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School performed nationally and statewide out of 17,655 nationally ranked schools and 1,210 schools ranked in New York.