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 ...

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.

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 ...

Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees include José Andrés, Hillary Clinton and Lionel Messi, among 19 people.

President Joe Biden awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people on Saturday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...