The latest crop of participants in the Mississippi Delta Film Academy was filming shots of Drew, Mississippi - the backdrop ...

Several events in Utica, Rome and Petersboro over four days will celebrate Black history, art and music, and the area's ties to abolitionism plus fun.

Kate Clifford Larson — biographer of Fannie Lou Hamer and Harriet Tubman, and a consultant to the two National Park Service parks honoring Tubman in Auburn and in Maryland — will speak on ...

It may be a new federally recognized holiday, but the roots of Juneteenth date back to 1865. Here’s how some Arizonans are celebrating.

We run footage of Fannie Lou Hamer, the people’s struggle, and the governor of Mississippi. All of that is historical, so you can go back and see it. It will be right there on the screen.

Written by Mississippi Today Mississippi Today A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be ...

Monica Land is an award-winning journalist and has been writing for local and national media outlets for more than twenty-five years. She specializes in investigative and statistical reporting, ...

Joy Elaine Davenport is a multimedia director, editor, and composer who specializes in building layered, emotional narratives from a variety of original and archival sources. Her directorial debut, ...

Her aunt, Fannie Lou Hamer, was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. Hatcher was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her aunt, while her son, Ricky Coley ...

Her aunt, Fannie Lou Hamer, was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. Hatcher was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her aunt, while her son, Ricky Coley ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, American, 1917 - 1977 Diane Nash, American, born 1938 Unidentified Man or Men Unidentified Woman or Women Description A black-and-white digital image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is also Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the civil rights movement’s most powerful voices. Hamer endured unspeakable hardship, including forced sterilization, state-sanctioned police violence, and ...