Micah Green/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRapper Common will officially give civil and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer her flowers through an upcoming biopic.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Common is set to produce God’s Long Summer, a feature film that “follows Hamer’s rise from oppressive plantation sharecropping system in 1962 Mississippi, where at age 44, she fought against the Southern political establishment and systemic racism.”
Prior to her death in 1977, Hamer was one of the most powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movement, who fought for greater opportunities for African-Americans.
“Fannie Lou Hamer is a revolutionary figure we should all know,” says Common. “Her story and impact is evidence
