From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

“I heard him in Ruleville once talking to a church full ... the satisfaction of seeing a Mississippi Negro woman like Fannie Lou Hamer emerge as a leader, or that meeting in Canton yesterday.

One of those people is Ruleville’s own Fannie Lou Hamer. The reason I think about her lies in the fact that she was a very spiritual woman whose faith motivated her to take action. She grew up in ...

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

Community members gathered for a screening of “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” followed by a panel discussion as part of the MSU ...

Kentucky Opera will premiere its first commissioned opera in over 25 years, 'This Little Light of Mine,' a new work inspired ...

When a major network invited me to discuss Black History Month through the lens of presidential politics, I declined. Not ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were bailed out by the government during the housing crisis nearly 17 years ago. The Trump administration is considering letting them go private again. By Matthew ...