Shirley Chisholm zeroes in on her 1972 Democratic ... She returned to Brooklyn when she was 10 and lived with her parents and siblings in an "unheated, four-room, cold-water railroad flat" in ...

Unbossed & Unbowed intertwines the public and private life of Shirley Chisholm, beginning when she was a child living in Bed Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Her immigrant parents arrived from the ...

Shirley Chisholm ... have yet to learn that Chisholm recently made history the Caribbean, where she has roots. Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents from the Caribbean ...

Lee, a Chisholm mentee, reflects on the enduring legacy of the history-making congresswoman on her 100th birthday. No one has ...

The late Shirley Chisholm, who was the first Black woman ever elected to Congress, would have turned 100 years old later this year. Chisholm was a political trailblazer, paving the way for future ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one has fought more in Congress to keep alive Shirley Chisholm’s legacy than U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee. The 78-year-old California lawmaker counts the late Chisholm as a mentor and friend.