This year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago is a historic moment as Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris’ ascent to this position — as ...

Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ presidential nom-ination Thursday Aug. 22, 2024, exactly 60 years after ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was ... her Civil Rights speeches: “I didn’t go down there to register for you. I went down to register for myself.” Marlow ordered her off his land. Hamer stayed with ...

Robert F. Kennedy, public science educator Bill Nye, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be awarded ...

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.

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 ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was ... her Civil Rights speeches: “I didn’t go down there to register for you. I went down to register for myself.” Marlow ordered her off his land. Hamer stayed with ...

President Joe Biden has announced the 2025 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, created in 1963 to recognize individuals whose work has ...