Supporters insist that the one-woman stage play will uplift the audience, even as they learn about Fannie Lou Hamer.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her vote in the 2024 ...

Happy Election Day 2024! This year’s race is a high stakes face-off that has many sitting on the edge of their seats. Vice ...

The testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer to the credentials committee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was vivid and blunt. She ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.

On the Sunday before Election Day, Black women gathered on Zoom as they had done every Sunday for four years in a moment of ...

This story was written by Teen Vogue' s 2024 Student Correspondents, a team of college students and recent graduates covering ...

Award-winning actress and playwright Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is taking her one-woman play about civil rights and voting activist Fannie Lou Hamer on the road again. It’s all part of “The Voice of ...

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” That was the guiding mantra of Fannie Lou Hamer, who two years before she ran for Congress in 1964, didn’t know she had a right to vote. In honor of Election ...

Two days before the Nov. 5 election, Opal Lee will bring a play to Fort Worth that pays tribute to Hamer’s legacy as a voting ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta. She first joined her family in the cotton fields at the age of six.