Lee eventually worked in Congress and ran for office herself, taking over the seat after her boss, Rep. Ron Dellums, retired ... dictionary,” she said. “Shirley Chisholm encouraged me to ...

Bipartisan legislation to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman, became law last week, as ...

“Shirley Chisholm grew up just steps away from Brooklyn Children’s Museum, in the very neighborhood she would later champion in Congress,” said Atiba T. Edwards, president and CEO of Brooklyn Children ...

Although a small number of African-Americans hold Congressional seats before her, Chisholm is the first black woman to be elected to the body. She is also the first woman, and the first person of ...

After her retirement from Congress in 1983 ... especially artists of color, to capture Shirley Chisholm’s dynamism and fearlessness in the face of the status quo. I look forward to working ...

Award-winning playwright Ingrid Griffith will perform her solo show Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed ... woman to be elected to the United States Congress and run for U.S. President.

A Buffalo cultural committee has announced that local artist Julia Bottoms will be designing a bronze statue honoring the late Shirley Chisholm ... to be elected to Congress, where she served ...

Barbara was invited to speak at The Library of Congress as an entrepreneur and President of the Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute on behalf of the legacy of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first ...

The Netflix film focuses on the historic and improbable presidential run of Shirley Chisholm. She was the first black woman elected to the United States congress, and in 1972 she also became the ...