Shirley Chisholm was the first Black major-party presidential candidate and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

U.S. News spoke with Tolliver about her book, the historical parallels between Chisholm and Harris and what advice Chisholm, who died in 2005, might give to Democratic Party leaders were she still ...

With these struggles in mind, what sort of lessons could the Democratic Party of 2025 and beyond take from Chisholm? I think the No. 1 lesson is to organize across classes.

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM: I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America. I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am ...

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American to run for a major party’s presidential nomination, and the first woman to run for the Democratic nomination, but most Americans don ...

How Shirley Chisholm’s run for president made Kamala Harris’ campaign possible Shirley Chisholm (Rep. N.Y.), left, announcing her candidacy for the presidency in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1972.

Shirley Chisholm (Rep. N.Y.) announcing her candidacy for the presidency in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 25, 1972. Jim Wells / AP She was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and was 80 when she died in 2005.

A s the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to run for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm clearly had no shortage of vision. Even so, the glass ...

CHICAGO — "We are a party of the future, we're not a party of the past," Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison proclaimed during his remarks to the sparse yet lively crowd of the Black Caucus ...

At the 1972 Democratic convention in Miami, Chisholm accrued only 152 delegates, but she became the first woman in the Democratic Party to have her name placed in nomination.

Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, telling voters across the country that she believes the 2024 election marks a "fight for America ...