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

Little Rock, 1942,” a play written by Newby and Jim Lundy will run for one night only at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Landmark ...

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 ...

When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support ... satisfaction of seeing a Mississippi Negro woman like Fannie Lou Hamer emerge as a leader, or that meeting in Canton yesterday.

The acceptance of interracial marriage has traversed a long, rocky, and violent road. This is where we must start.

Congressman Lewis was a part of the mural. We had Augusta Savage, we had Ellen Baker, we had Fannie Lou Hamer, and of course Martin Luther King and Malcolm X that were profiled that mural.

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as ... His "We Shall Overcome" is in many ways the definitive version. 14. Fannie Lou Hamer, 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' (1963) The original ...

At this rally, famous activists and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael ... Born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer grew up as the youngest of 20 children ...