“Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” will premiere as a special presentation from PBS and WORLD Channel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. CT on PBS stations nationwide.

The documentary, "Fannie Lou Hamer's America", will air at 9 p.m. EST on Feb. 22, 2022, according to a news release by WORLD Channel.

Fannie Lou Hamer’s passion and ingenuity—and most of all, her emphasis on empowering those in need—serve as a model for today as activists continue to demand economic justice.

ESSENCE celebrates the legacy of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer– who passed away on this day in 1977– and her lasting impact on democracy in America.

This is addressing Fannie Lou Hamer, who, 60 years ago, testified to the DNC Credentials Committee because she couldn't be a part of the Mississippi delegation.

Fannie Lou Hamer was nearly beaten to death in a jail cell in Winona in June 1963 for encouraging blacks to register and vote. She never recovered from that beating and died of breast cancer and ...

E. Faye Butler stars as 1960s civil rights and voting rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer in “Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer)” directed by Henry Godinez at the Goodman Theatre.

Premiere Stages has gone to great lengths to produce a rousing version of Cheryl L. West’s new play, Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on It! —which runs for only five shows through the weekend—a ...

Felton Offard (Music Director-Arrangements) and E. Faye Butler (Fannie Lou Hamer) in Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It! by Cheryl L. West, directed by Henry Godinez. Photo by Liz Lauren.

Fannie is an American horror story and were the events portrayed in the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer not true, one would think it was an imagined social dystopia like A Clockwork ...

View full size A life-sized bronze statue of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is unveiled at the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Gardens in Ruleville, Miss., Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Hamer, who died of ...

FILE – Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the credentials committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22 ...