Get to know trailblazer ‘Fighting’ Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and to run for president. Skip to content NOWCAST WISN 12 News This Morning ...

American politician, educator, and author Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), Member of the US House of Representatives from New ...

If Harris' campaign is the coconut, then Shirley Chisholm is the biggest branch which grows from a tall trunk grown strong from a decades-long sisterhood of activists, intellectuals, organizers ...

PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- This November 30 will mark what would have been Shirley Chisholm's 100th birthday. Ahead of her birthday, people are remembering and discovering the trailblazing ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new statue honoring political trailblazer Shirley Chisholm has been unveiled at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, where she is buried. The tribute celebrates Chisholm’s legacy ...

According to the National Women's History Museum, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first Black Congresswoman, serving seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, beginning in 1969.

“Unbossed and Unbowed,” a one-woman stage play dramatizing the life and political career of U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, is coming to Synchronicity Theatre from Oct. 31 through Nov. 4 ...

Clinton nodded to the trailblazing women who have run for national office, including Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president and a source of inspiration for Harris’ campaign.

More than 50 years ago, Shirley Chisholm became the first woman of color to be a candidate for a major political party’s nomination for U.S. President. She was a pioneer and a visionary ...

November 30, 2024 would have been Chisholm's 100th birthday. While the history that she has made in the United States is well known, her time and impact in Barbados are now being highlighted.

I was wrong, of course. Years passed, then decades. The prospect of the U.S. electing a woman as president felt like an increasingly distant goal, even after — maybe especially after — Hillary ...