Atlantic City calls the boardwalk “world famous” on signs but it has a humble origin story. It was dreamed up by two ...

Her aunt, Fannie Lou Hamer, was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. Hatcher was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her aunt, while her son, Ricky Coley ...

Her aunt, Fannie Lou Hamer, was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. Hatcher was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her aunt, while her son, Ricky Coley ...

“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.

“Like Frederick Douglass and Fannie Lou Hamer, I draw my strength from what they all did. During their time, they all suffered more hardship than I have ever suffered or ever will suffer.” Powell said ...

Lomax, Seeger, and the like had suffered under McCarthyism, when the values of the Popular Front seemed to have been extirpated from American life. To them, Newport represented a cracking open of a ...

Hamer is most notable for her involvement in the voter registration campaign, Freedom Summer in 1964, where college students of all races helped expand voting rights for Black people in Mississippi.

Tuesday, Jan. 21 On Tuesday, Jan. 21, the Social Justice Film and Discussion on Fannie Lou Hamer’s "America" will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the MSU Library in the Green Room.

Image via YouTube One of the last frames of Part 1 is a black screen with Fannie Lou Hamer’s quote: “Nobody’s free until everyone’s free.” The irony is completely lost on Watson that Hamer was a ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was poor and vocally Black in the South. Serena Williams is wealthy, Black and an international superstar. Despite her privilege, Williams also experienced the differential way the ...

It was 60 years to the day of Hamer’s speech. “Kamala Harris says she stands on Fannie Lou’s shoulders,” Aimbaye recalled.

What Welchlin saw that August morning were the faces of Black women — and a lot of them. Their interests, varied and historically overlooked, are at the center of a new kind of intentional voter ...