Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium at the Democratic National Convention and made a speech that challenged the party for its failure to support Black Americans' right to vote. In ...

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was. She decided to do something about it. Her one-woman ...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention comes 60 years after Fannie Lou Hamer's famed "Is this America" speech at the 1964 DNC. The 2024 Democratic National Convention is seeing the country unite to ...

On Aug. 22, 1964, 47-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer sat before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention and told the harrowing account of her attempt two years earlier to register to ...

Introduction: "I don't mind my light shining" -- A rhetorical education, 1917-1962 -- Through the shadows of death, 1962-1964 -- "Is this America?" 1964 -- "The country's number one freedom fighting ...

In an exclusive interview with theGrio, Fannie Lou Hamer’s daughter celebrates her mother on the 42nd anniversary of the civil rights activist’s death. Fannie Lou Hamer is quoted, perhaps more than ...

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.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County will recognize 13 local women in honor of voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The family of Fannie Lou Hamer donated the civil rights leader’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Former President ...

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