President Joe Biden awarded the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people at the White House on ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who is the 11th ...

President Joe Biden will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, ...

"Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer transformed the struggle for racial justice in America," the White House said in a press release. "As a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she challenged ...

WASHINGTON -- In the East Room of the White House on a particularly ... who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

President Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to Black luminaries, Denzel Washington, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Fannie Lou ...

On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977.

President Biden on Saturday awarded 19 individuals with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honoring a slew of prominent ...