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

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WASHINGTON — In one of his last official acts as president, Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 ...

President Biden celebrated 19 recipients, with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Joe Biden awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 remarkable individuals. Among the honorees ...

Denzel Washington joined 17 other honorees in receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House over the weekend ...

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Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Biden will also posthumously grant the medal to former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and former Michigan Gov.

The White House said the Medal of Freedom recipients have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi civil rights activist was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 4 alongside 18 others.

Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously registered Black voters throughout the South and advocated for voting rights, was posthumously awarded her Medal of Freedom, which was accepted by Doris Hamer ...