JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is accepting the Democrats' presidential nomination Thursday, exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the nation with a televised ...

The 29th Fannie Lou Hamer Awards Reception will honor 17 local women for their civil and human rights leadership on Sept. 29 at Maryland Hall in Annapolis. Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, was an American ...

Sixty years ago, at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer told the party and the country about themselves when she was denied a seat on the all-White ...

Almost 60 years ago, Fannie Lou Hamer took the podium at the Democratic National Convention and made a speech that challenged the party for its failure to support Black Americans' right to vote. In ...

It was some 20 years ago when Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye got tired of people telling her they didn’t know who civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was. She decided to do something about it. Her one-woman ...

Composer Mary D. Watkins. She has a new opera premiering in Dorchester on Friday, Sept. 20, that centers on the life and legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer. This Friday, White Snake Projects will present the ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County will recognize 13 local women in honor of voting and women’s rights activist, community organizer and civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer.

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FILE - Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Vice President Kamala ...