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

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King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, ...

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.

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 ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously registered Black voters throughout the South and advocated for voting rights, was posthumously awarded her Medal of Freedom, which was accepted by Doris Hamer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The late Fannie Lou Hamer, a fearless civil rights advocate, is being posthumously recognized for her pivotal role in America’s struggle for racial equality. As a founder of the Mississippi ...