Atlantic City calls the boardwalk “world famous” on signs but it has a humble origin story. It was dreamed up by two ...

The administration’s proposed budget for HIV prevention represents a 78 percent reduction compared to last fiscal year.

Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and legacy come to life in an upcoming production at Kentucky Opera. This Little Light of Mine (with performances Feb. 21 and 23) is a new work that brings Hamer’s ...

Hamer is most notable for her involvement in the voter registration campaign, Freedom Summer in 1964, where college students of all races helped expand voting rights for Black people in Mississippi.

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977. The Delta ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We will never know the ...

What Do Denzel Washington, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Magic Johnson Now All Have in Common? The three icons were recognized recently with a very, well-deserved honor.

Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded 19 recipients the prestigious medal at the White House. Hamer ...

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

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who is serving her 17th term, endorsed Kamala Harris for president during her speech, drawing on the history of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., invoked the memory of Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights leader who brought a group of Black delegates to the 1964 DNC in Atlantic City.