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

"This is more than just beating Donald Trump. ... This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who, 60 years ago, testified to the ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... It took several days -- and the arrest and beating of Lawrence Guyot, another SNCC worker -- before they were finally released on June 12.

“This is more than just beating Donald Trump. … This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who said she's sick and tired of being sick and tired. Well, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired ...

The beating permanently damaged her eyes ... Blain noted in her 2021 book, “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America," that Hamer feared both abortion and birth control ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist, suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police. Her response: to elevate her cause by launching a long ...

Fort Worth’s Grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, wants to motivate and inspire North Texas to get out and vote.

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 ...

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 ...

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 knew that there was a sense of urgency, that we were like beating down the clock ‒ the same feeling ... Richardson also ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 ... It took several days -- and the arrest and beating of Lawrence Guyot, another SNCC worker -- before they were finally released on June 12.