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

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.

This year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago is a historic moment as Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris’ ascent to this position — as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Starring Tony winner Renee Elise Goldsberry as Celeste and Emmy winner Lynn Whitfield as Paula, the movie opens in theaters .

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.