“Shirley Chisholm grew up just steps away from Brooklyn Children ... Stuy in 1923 to working-class immigrant parents from Barbados and Guyana. She went on to graduate from Brooklyn Girls’ High in 1942 ...

Although a small number of African-Americans hold Congressional seats before her, Chisholm is the first black woman to be elected to the body. She is also the first woman, and the first person of ...

Join the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Center for Equity and Inclusion, and the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environmentfor our Artist Spotlight: Transforming Communities through ...

The Netflix film focuses on the historic and improbable presidential run of Shirley Chisholm. She was the first black woman elected to the United States congress, and in 1972 she also became the ...

A Buffalo cultural committee has announced that local artist Julia Bottoms will be designing a bronze statue honoring the late Shirley Chisholm. Back in October, we posted that the search was on ...

An announcement has been made that a statue in the honor of Shirley Chisholm will “come to life” in the year 2022. Chisholm was the first black woman to be elected to Congress, where she ...

“Shirley Chisholm grew up just steps away from Brooklyn ... class immigrant parents from Barbados and Guyana. She went on to ...