Fannie Lou Hamer was an artist who fought for inclusive democracy. Her advocacy and activism laid the groundwork for the 1965 ...

Fannie Lou Hamer remembered for her civil rights contributions ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist from Mississippi, is posthumously recognized for her efforts in voter registration ...

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

With Anthony’s birthday taking place during Black History Month, one organization is using her birthday celebration to also ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.

Black women are brilliant, strong, resilient, giving and loving. And right now, we're tired. We must restore fractured coalitions with our allies.

Bob Dylan’s electric set at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965 was to become, in Clinton Heylin’s words, “the most ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

He played at Brown University in Rhode Island in 1915 and led the team to victory over Yale. Fannie Lou Hamer, a key figure in the civil rights movement, fought for African American... Former Midland ...

Eight years ago, when Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba first took office, he remarkably vowed to the country to make Jackson “the ...