Robert F. Kennedy, public science educator Bill Nye, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, among others, were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be awarded ...

President Joe Biden, center, prepares to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... In this Aug. 22, 1964 photograph, Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Freedom Democratic party, speaks before ...

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.

niece of late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom on her behalf from U.S. President Joe Biden in the East Room at the White House on January 4 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the East Room of the White House on a particularly frigid Saturday afternoon, President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal ... and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded ...

Related: Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention ... Last year, Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people, including the late Medgar Evers, House Speaker Emerita ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients on ... and the late civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Other recipients included former Secretary of State ...

Soros has been a frequent target of Republican criticism for financial support of progressive causes and Democratic ...

From NBA.com News Services Magic Johnson becomes the 6th NBA player to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, former attorney general Robert Francis ...

4 (UPI) --Controversial Open Society Foundations founder George Soros and 18 others are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... four posthumous recipients. Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded ...