Born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer grew up as the youngest of 20 children in Ruleville, MS. Hamer’s ...

This commentary by Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons is the first of a two-part series on prominent Black men and women. This week ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

His roots in civil rights activism run deep, having worked alongside icons like Fannie Lou Hamer in the 1960s to register Black voters throughout the Mississippi Delta. This early experience ...