actor Denzel Washington, former NBA star and business mogul Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Other recipients included former Secretary of State ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was ... the tubes tied,” she told a Washington, DC, audience three years later. The forced sterilization was one of the moments that set Hamer on the path to the forefront ...

Fannie Lou Hamer stood before the Democratic National Convention (DNC). She delivered one of the most searing indictments of American democracy. “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of ...

Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. When former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer first learned that Black people were finally allowed to vote, she knew exactly ...

As strong-willed civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Butler knows she has audiences in the palm of her hand. And rightfully so! Butler easily glides between impassioned ...