(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BARACK OBAMA: There are people in our country's history who don't look left or right, they just look straight ahead. And Shirley Chisholm was one of those people.

Regina King plays Shirley Chisholm with a quiet force you can’t look away from. On the podium, Shirley speaks with elegant fortitude, and in private only a little less so; in her decorous way ...

The inspiration behind wanting to do it 15 years ago was just the shock of how many people didn’t know who Shirley Chisholm was. Even in a lot of classes during Black History Month, they weren ...

Regina King gets an opportunity to show off her considerable talents in Shirley (now on Netflix), a biodrama about a mid-century trailblazer in U.S. politics. She plays Shirley Chisholm ...

Shirley Anita Chisholm (November 30, 1924–January 1, 2005) was the first Black woman elected to Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district from 1969 to 1983. Chisholm served ...

She had to write a paper about politics. She went to visit Shirley Chisholm and told her she didn't like politics and was only writing the paper because she had to." Chisholm remind Lee how ...

If Harris' campaign is the coconut, then Shirley Chisholm is the biggest branch which ... for them were as legal secretaries. Women couldn't get their own mortgages or credit cards, that they ...

I don’t think there has been a day since when I ... but my experience of the concept was limited to Shirley Chisholm’s brief presidential campaign when I was in elementary school.