Mississippi Delta high school students participate in an intensive filmmaking workshop in which they explore and document their communities’ connections to Civil Rights icons Emmett Till and Fannie Lou Hamer.

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Our venue is the Westin Birmingham, which is in close proximity to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Uptown dining area.(The Westin, a 4-star hotel, is

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R.J. Fitzpatrick graduated from Delta State University in 2017 with a degree in digital media. While looking for a job, he was doing volunteer work for a woman who introduced

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“Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” Aired on PBS Feb. 22, 2022 and WORLD Channel on Feb. 24, 2022Now Streaming On Most Platforms! But for a limited time, you can watch the

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Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs

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Fannie Lou Hamer, the iconic and trailblazing civil rights activist is one of history’s most powerful, yet often forgotten voices. When she stood behind a podium she did not need

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“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” With those words at the 1964 Democratic Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer changed the course of Civil

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