Written by Mississippi Today Mississippi Today A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be held June 21 at 7 p.m. at the Strand Theatre in Vicksburg as part of ...

Her aunt, Fannie Lou Hamer, was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. Hatcher was wearing a T-shirt with a photo of her aunt, while her son, Ricky Coley ...

“I am really excited to be a part of the screening on the life of Fannie Lou Hamer,” McLemore said. “She was a personal friend of mine, and I remember when I first met Mrs. Hamer back in 1963. We were ...

Lou Christie, the singer-songwriter who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 with the lush “Lightnin’ Strikes” and had another top 20 hit that year with the (for its time) sexually ...

Lou Christie, the Pittsburgh legend who hit the high notes and the high spots on the charts, has died at 82. A social media post from his family on Christie’s Facebook page on Wednesday noted ...

A screening of the award-winning film “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will be held June 21 at 7 p.m. at the Strand Theatre in Vicksburg as part of a fundraising event for the Mississippi Humanities ...

January 4, 1936 ­ June 15, 2025 ISHPEMING, MI­Mary Lou E. Simons, age 89, longtime resident of Ishpeming, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 15, 2025, a ...

ESCANABA — Mary Lou R. Salley, 72, of Escanaba, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at her home with her family by her side. Mary was born on May 27, 1953, in Escanaba, the daughter of ...

Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac risks a return to the kind of perilous mortgages that helped cause the global financial crisis unless regulatory safeguards are kept in place, an affordable ...

Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac risks a return to the kind of perilous mortgages that helped cause the global financial crisis unless regulatory safeguards are kept in place, an affordable ...

Dr. Leslie McLemore, civil rights activist, close friend of Fannie Lou Hamer, and former MHC board chair, who will share rare and personal stories that bring Hamer’s legacy vividly to life.

Outside Nashville's Parthenon, one of the sculptor's new works features a colossal head that honors the late Fannie Lou Hamer, the daughter of impoverished sharecroppers who became a leading civil ...