The Fannie Lou Hamer Story

"The Fannie Lou Hamer Story" is an entrancing one-woman play performed by award-winning actress, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye. Mzuri poetically shares about voting rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, through song and storytelling, performed live at the Lyric Theatre on Friday March 18th and Saturday March 19th.

She channels Mrs. Hamer transfixing the audience on a riveting 90-minute journey of storytelling, video montage with twelve inspiring songs about Mrs. Hamer’s activism as the "Mother of Voter Registration” for Black people which aided in the passage of the Voters’ Rights Act of 1965. A critic once wrote, "When Ms. Mzuri sings God smiles and angels flap their wings”.

Born in Patterson, NJ, Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye is an internationally acclaimed vocalist, actress, and multi-award-winning playwright of The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, One Woman Play in which she performs. Her talents combine the presence of a movie star with a booming vocal range and versatility of an opera singer. She has been enthusiastically received on cabaret and concert stages both nationally and internationally. Ms Aimbaye was cast as "Lucy" for the first African American film depicting a slave revolt, SANKOFA, just re-released on Netflix. She was commissioned by the National Congress of Black Women, to write a short play, a song, and perform for the historic installment of the Sojourner Truth bust in Constitution Hall, D.C.