actor Denzel Washington, former NBA star and business mogul Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Other recipients included former Secretary of State ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born ... the tubes tied,” she told a Washington, DC, audience three years later. The forced sterilization was one of the moments that set Hamer on the path to the forefront ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist, suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police. Her response: to elevate her cause by launching a long ...

As strong-willed civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, Butler knows she has audiences in the palm of her hand. And rightfully so! Butler easily glides between impassioned ...

The late Fannie Lou ... of activists. Hamer was one of several individuals recognized posthumously, joining Robert F. Kennedy, Ashton Carter, and George W. Romney. Denzel Washington, an actor ...