Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer.

The journey of a civil rights-era pioneer will be featured in a play on a stage in North Texas this weekend.Fannie Lou Hamer ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. Recommended Videos She described how she was fired from her plantation job in ...

Happy Election Day 2024! This year’s race is a high stakes face-off that has many sitting on the edge of their seats. Vice ...

Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her vote in the 2024 ...

Award-winning actress and playwright Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is taking her one-woman play about civil rights and voting activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the road again. It’s all part of “The Voice of ...

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” That was the guiding mantra of Fannie Lou Hamer, who two years before she ran for Congress in 1964, didn’t know she had a right to vote. In honor of Election ...

Many see Harris as a continuation of the legacy of Black women leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker. Nadia Brown, a ...

She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom and Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Vision of America, which will be published by ...

From the toils of Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan emerges a twenty-first-century leader, Stacey Abrams. This Element explores the strategic organizing acumen of Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi and ...

I’m voting for an economy that works for all of us, for science that helps us love our Mama Earth. I’m voting for all to feel loved.

Fannie Lou Hamer was the vice chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She often risked her life in her bold fight for civil rights ...