Thanks to the spirit of Shirley Chisholm, there is somewhere right now another straight-backed, brilliant, outspoken little girl planning to become president. We’ve never needed her more.

“I look towards women of integrity who have served — from Barbara Jordan to Shirley Chisholm, Stacey Abrams, Kamala Harris, down and down the line” Bassett said with a sense of reverenc ...

Her other books include a biography of Shirley Chisholm for children, Femininity, and In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Brownmiller once wrote that her "chosen path — to fight against ...

He’s backed by Assemblymember Latrice Walker, district leader Stefani Zinerman, and political clubs like the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club and the Southern Brooklyn Democrats. He has also earned ...

In 1971, she published a biography for young readers of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, who later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. After “Against ...

She wrote scores of magazine articles and half a dozen books, starting in 1970 with a children’s book about Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Her 1984 book ...

Actor Gary Sinise has hinted he may end his Hollywood hiatus. The Forrest Gump star stepped away from movie roles in 2019 to care for his son McCanna, who was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare form ...

Harlem’s longtime former congressman Charlie Rangel has died at age 94. A founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the first Black chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means ...

“We must move forward and build on their legacies,” she said of trailblazers like Shirley Chisholm, “continue to open doors, end all forms of discrimination and smash glass ceiling ...