Keisha N. Blain

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Why Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Economic Justice Endures Today

Addressing a crowd in Madison, Wisc., in 1971, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer said she knew what it meant to be hungry. She recalled growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in a sharecropping...

By Keisha N. Blain

John Lewis’ Fight for Equality Went Beyond the United States

John Lewis often reminded activists that the challenges Black Americans encountered were inextricably linked to freedom struggles abroad

By Keisha N. Blain

These Overlooked Black Women Shaped Malcolm X's Life

Black women were key to Malcolm X’s political development and intellectual growth

By Keisha N. Blain

'God Is Not Going to Put It in Your Lap.' What Made Fannie Lou Hamer’s Message on Civil Rights So Radical—And So Enduring

Hamer’s bold message to “get up and try to do something” was one that all Americans committed to change needed to hear

By Keisha N. Blain
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