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Until I Am Free: Teaching Fannie Lou Hamer Past and Present

What we don’t know about the real life of the civil rights leader, Fannie Lou Hamer could fill a

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

In 1841, Mrs. John Little crossed the Ohio River and left behind a life of bondage. After a long journey,

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, managing editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. Patricia Romney on her new book, We

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in