WASHINGTON — In one of his last official acts as president, Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th ...

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The ceremony unfolded in the historic White House East Room, where President Biden reflected on its legacy as the site […] ...

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President Joe Biden awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 remarkable individuals. Among the honorees ...

President Biden celebrated 19 recipients, with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded 654 times between 1963 and 2024, according to the Congressional Research ...

President Joe Biden awarded Mississippian Fannie Lou Hamer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hamer was a founder of the ...

Other recipients included former Secretary of State ... the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously registered Black voters throughout the ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi civil rights activist was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 4 alongside 18 others.