Barbara Lee at an April 21 news conference after winning Oakland’s mayoral election: “I’m going to do the hard work and make the tough decisions.

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress. She was known for supporting civil rights and women's rights. Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters ...

Uzo Aduba stars as an eccentric, bird-watching sleuth in Netflix's new murder-mystery comedy, a role that feels revolutionary to the actor.

There were lots of references to Shirley Chisholm in Harris’s 2020 primary. Goldberg: Oh, yeah. And I saw people wearing Shirley Chisholm shirts at the Harris rally in Atlanta.

Before Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, there was George Edwin Taylor, who ran for President as a member of the National Negro Liberty Party in 1904.

This week marks the release of A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics, the highly anticipated new book by MSNBC political analyst Juanita Tolliver ...

Shirley Chisholm, 1st Black Congresswoman, To Be Honored With Congressional Gold Medal Act President Biden signed the bipartisan legislation on Dec. 12 to honor the first Black congresswoman.

Chisholm, who died in 2005 at 80, made history in 1968 as the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York’s 12th Congressional District.

Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-12) and U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA), signs the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act at the U.S. Capitol, Monday ...

On Dec. 9, 2024, Vice President Harris proudly signed the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act on Capitol Hill. During the ceremony, she also swore in Senators-designate Andy Kim, ...

Shirley Chisholm passed away in 2005 at age 80, but her influence endures. As the legislation heads to President Biden’s desk for signature, her story remains a beacon of hope, inspiring ...

Shirley Chisholm (Rep. N.Y.) announcing her candidacy for the presidency in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 25, 1972. Jim Wells / AP She was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and was 80 when she died in 2005.