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

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist ...

The “grandmother of Juneteenth," is bringing a play to a Fort Worth stage on Sunday highlighting Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy ...

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 ...

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

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.