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

WASHINGTON — In one of his last official acts as president, Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, who died in 1977. The Delta native is the 11th Mississippian to receive the honor since 1964.

and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Kennedy is father to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

The Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded 654 times between 1963 and 2024, according to the Congressional Research Service. This year, one goes to

President Joe Biden awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 remarkable individuals. Among the honorees were civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, actor Denzel Washington, media mogul Oprah Winfrey,

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

The ceremony took place inside the White House East Room, where Biden noted President Lincoln met and Frederick Douglass stood […]

Fox, the late Robert ... John F. Kennedy selected 31 recipients, including Marian Anderson, the first African-American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Fannie Lou Hamer, who famously ...