The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee will honor 17 Anne Arundel women at its 29th annual Fannie Lou Hamer Awards on Sunday. The nominees come from various racial backgrounds, excel in their chosen ...

When you hear stories about the civil rights movement in the '50s and '60s, it mainly revolves around figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. But ...

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Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977, ... at the 57th Anniversary of the March on Washington and provided the invocation at the 2023 National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his message in the '60s ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the ... of Black Citizens of Lexington is hosting a concert in honor of MLK Jr. Day and in celebration of the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and activist Fannie Lou ...

From left: Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Illustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Images At a time when school boards are voting to remove ...