Longtime Memphis reporter and journalism professor Candy Justice has applied her nose for news and her flair for storytelling ...

Working with co-author Bryan Cottingham, Justice has penned a book that is part memoir, part history lesson, part biography ... such visiting notables as Fannie Lou Hamer and Dr. Martin Luther ...

“Just some guy’s barn,” Wright Thompson tells in his piercing biography of the building ... civil right activist Fannie Lou Hamer, first-generation bluesmen Charley Patton and Son House ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A play based on civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer's life will be featured this weekend in Fort Worth. Opal Lee, the native North Texan known as the "grandmother of Juneteenth," is credited as the ...

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 ...