Chisholm's leadership traits were recognized by her parents early on. Born Shirley St. Hill in New York City, on Nov. 30, 1924, she was the eldest of four daughters of Caribbean immigrants. She began ...

New York City marked the inaugural Shirley Chisholm Day on Saturday – honoring the life and legacy of the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress on what would have been her ...

President Joe Biden signed the “Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act” last week posthumously honoring Chisholm, who died in 2005, with Congress’s highest award.

A one-woman show coming to West Philly tells the story of a woman often left out of history books: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to run for a major party’s presidential nomination ...

Shirley Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born politician who made history in 1968 as the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, will be remembered every on her birthday, Nov. 30, according to a reso… ...

Shirley Chisholm championed the needs of low-income families by expanding food assistance programs like WIC. After a successful term as congresswoman, Chisholm ran for president in 1972, ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN to serve in Congress, was given a double honor recently in time for the centennial of her birth. U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-08), the ...

NYC establishes Shirley Chisholm Day 00:35. NEW YORK - New York City will honor pioneering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.. The City Council Committee on Civil and Human Rights voted to declare ...