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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...