Written by Mississippi Today Mississippi Today A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Vicksburg residents have an opportunity for an evening of film, conversation, and inspiration this Saturday at the Strand ...

Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

“Limelight” was inspired by the family dancing to George Clinton music and their 3-year-old can be heard singing on the song ... about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer said, ‘Nobody’s free until ...

Born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, Garbus and Brenner's three-year-old can be heard singing on the ... about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer said, 'Nobody's free ...

As civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer once said ... “It looks like he’s singing and dancing, but this Black man’s taking enormous chances.” Gabrielle Chenault covers Williamson ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was a civil rights activist who used singing to promote community and fight for voting rights. Hamer's life and legacy are celebrated in the new Kentucky Opera production ...

Two years prior to that speech, a young Joan Baez led a crowd of 300,000 in singing the gospel song ... many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain ...

The Hyatt Regency in Northeast Portland filled with music and singing as the MLK celebration ... for justice like Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sojourner Truth and Dr. King.