Shirley Chisholm and the Fight for Political Equality. 2/18/2025 | 3m 34s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Learn how America's first Black congresswoman broke barriers and ran for president against ...

The Chisholm trail would be followed by others: by the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr., for whom she campaigned in the 1980s; by Barack Obama, who was elected in 2008 as the first Black president, three ...

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and, a few years later, became the first black person from a major party to run for President. Chisholm, who died in ...

This week, 12 News landed an exclusive interview with Oscar-winning filmmaker and Milwaukee native John Ridley, director of the 2024 Netflix film "Shirley." Ridley's film documents the historic ...

Even the loser of the race for the Democratic nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will have broken new ground and earned a page or two in history books.

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Arizona on Oct. 10. If she wins the election, she will become the first female president of the United States.

For her part Chisholm said she was “the candidate of the people of America”. Like Ms Harris, whose father is from Jamaica, Chisholm, born in Brooklyn 100 years ago next month, had Caribbean roots.

New York City marked the inaugural Shirley Chisholm Day on Saturday – honoring the life and legacy of the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress on what would have been her ...

In 1972, Shirley Anita Chisholm became the first African American woman to seek nomination. Chisolm received 151.95 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention - but her political career ...

In Gloria Steinem’s article ‘Shirley Chisholm: Front-Runner’ in the January 1973, issue of Ms. Magazine, she writes about how the first black congresswoman to run for the White House was ...

When I was 19 years old, in the early 1980s, I started writing a novel about the daughter of the first female United States president. I don’t think there has been a day since when I haven’t ...

Kamala Harris has taken inspiration from Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president in a major party. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / Bloomberg - Getty Images July 24, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT ...