You don’t, however, detect any of it in the carefully detailed performance of Regina King as Shirley Chisholm, the first Black female member of the U.S. Congress, who campaigned for the ...

DETROW: Shirley Chisholm's presidential campaign may have ended in defeat, but her legacy looms larger than ever today through biographies, public monuments, politics and, of course, movies.

Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., announces her run for president at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1972. Don Hogan Charles / NYT Co. via Getty Images file ...

Chisholm had plenty of firsts under her belt. In 1968, she became the first Black congresswoman, representing the majority Black and largely Puerto Rican district in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she was ...

Bipartisan legislation to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman, became law last week, as the 118th Congress winds down with a final flurry of bills. President ...

At a glance, Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign for president was the definition of quixotic. She was 47 years old; at the time, she had served only one term (starting in 1968) as the first Black ...

Shirley Chisholm’s fierce independence was underscored by the tagline “Unbought and Unbossed,” which she adopted for her 1972 presidential campaign. Chisholm began her career in early childhood ...

Yes, there was Shola Lynch’s remarkable 2004 doc “Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed” back in 2004, and Uzo Aduba’s Emmy-winning depiction of her in FX on Hulu’s 2020 limited series ...

Learn how America's first Black congresswoman broke barriers and ran for president against all odds. Shirley Chisholm championed the needs of low-income families by expanding food assistance ...

Today, Netflix released the official trailer for SHIRLEY, starring Academy Award winner Regina King as the political icon Shirley Chisholm. The film tells the inspirational story of the first ...

Bipartisan legislation to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman, became law last week, as the 118th Congress winds down with a final flurry of bills.