Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett went viral in a House hearing, raising the deeper question of how Melania Trump qualified for an Einstein ...

Black and white Christians in America could have been allies in the fight for life across racial and partisan lines. Post-Dobbs, can we learn from recent history?

Fannie Lou Hamer's fight for voting rights in 1964 remains relevant today as states continue to enact voter suppression tactics. While Black political representation has increased, many elected ...

A marker now stands in New Jersey, 60 years after she challenged Mississippi's segregated Democratic Party during the national convention there. "Miss Hamer made this city, this county, and this state ...

Learn about Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist whose vision for an inclusive political future laid the groundwork for the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By Keisha N. Blain, an ...

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was. She decided to do something about it.

The 29th Fannie Lou Hamer Awards Reception will honor 17 local women for their civil and human rights leadership on Sept. 29 at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, was an Ameri… ...

The political efforts of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer are a case in point. Sixty years ago this Aug. 22, Hamer delivered an electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention in ...

And so, Fannie Lou Hamer, in some ways, became the heart of SNCC and, of course, the heart of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The thing I like to say about her, too, she’s often ...