The Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute’s Awards Ceremony will be held virtually — via Zoom — on Nov. 5, starting at 6 p.m. It is named for Chisholm, who died in 2005 at age 80, and remains ...

Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress, and a new movie is telling her story. "Shirley," out now on Netflix, focuses on Chisholm's run for the 1972 Democratic presidential ...

In Bed-Stuy, where Chisholm lived, a post office w named after her on 1915 Fulton St.At Brooklyn College, The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism is a repository of women’s ...

In 1949, Chisholm married Conrad Q. Chisholm, who was a private investigator. In 1951, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in early childhood education.

Chisholm was born in 1924 as Shirley Anita St. Hill in Brooklyn, but writes in her 1970 memoir “Unbought and Unbossed” that she was taken to Barbados at an early age to live with her grandmother.

In 1949, Chisholm married Conrad Q. Chisholm, who was a private investigator. In 1951, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in early childhood education.

In 1949, Chisholm married Conrad Q. Chisholm, who was a private investigator. In 1951, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in early childhood education.