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THE RELIGION CORNER: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story
Hamer dedicated her life to the fight for civil rights.
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One-Woman Play Revives Spirit and Mission of Fannie Lou Hamer
For actress Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye, educating, motivating and assisting unregistered voters has developed into an almost 20-year project – best…
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BAILEY: Guidance from Wise, Courageous Ancestral Warriors
If we, as people of African descent, had paid more attention to and agreed upon the guidance and advice from…
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Phenomenal Women: Fannie Lou Hamer
Mississippi native Fannie Lou Hamer, co-founder and vice chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, was a voting and women's rights…
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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Dear Mr. President, Everyday People Need the Whole Truth
As I continue to listen to the president boast time and time again about America's surging economy and the profits…
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Film Festival Pays Tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer
In commemoration of what would have been her 100th birthday, the legacy of late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer…
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Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer—Part II
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of…
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Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer—Part I
By Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from The Afro (The Afro)—“History does not refer merely, or even principally,…
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2 Miss. Museums to Take on its Turbulent History
by EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected…
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