Democratic US Representative Shirley Chisholm Announcing her candidacy ... including liberals who fretted that Chisholm would draw votes away from better-known anti-war candidates, such as ...

In 1969, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black U.S. congresswoman at 44 ... Though it’s standard procedure for biopics and historical dramas to draw connections to the present, Shirley fumbles this ...

MARTIN: Barbara, Shirley Chisholm won her congressional seat at ... that people picking up this book today will draw from it? What do you think that they'll be most surprised by?

Earl Brown (Deadwood) and newcomer Ethan Jones Romero have joined the cast of Shirley ... It will draw on exclusive and extensive conversations with Chisholm’s family and friends, following ...

star and director of the biopic Shirley which celebrates Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. CHISHOLM: I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country ...

On Jan. 25, 1972, Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York stood on a platform in a Baptist church in her congressional district in Brooklyn. Behind a dozen microphones, she waved to the crowd and took a ...

A Buffalo cultural committee has announced that local artist Julia Bottoms will be designing a bronze statue honoring the late Shirley Chisholm. Back in October, we posted that the search was on ...

NEW YORK-- Shirley Chisholm, New York's pioneering congresswoman from Brooklyn, was honored Saturday on what would have been her 100th birthday. Nov. 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York City ...

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 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 ...

It will draw on exclusive and extensive conversations with Chisholm’s family and friends ... also be shepherding an impact campaign tied to Shirley, as part of its ongoing commitment to ...