Our politics are bitter and retributive. In the Christians of the Civil Rights Movement, we have a model of a better way.

It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi felt about Black people voting in the 1960s.

It was Martin Luther King ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and ...

It was Martin Luther King ... was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and ...

Mr. Salaam traveled the country to engage in social justice advocacy alongside Civil Rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokley Carmichael, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more.

Special guest Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye will perform an excerpt from her award-winning show, “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story.” The 2025 winners of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. essay-writing contest ...