Shirley Chisholm championed the needs of low-income families by expanding food assistance programs like WIC. After a successful term as congresswoman, Chisholm ran for president in 1972 ...

Her announcement speech, made at Brooklyn's Concord Baptist ... During the four years that bookmarked the height of Shirley ...

All of the members who walked out were wearing black clothing with different messages. Crockett wore a shirt with a picture ...

Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, leaves a legacy on how to build a movement shaken by Kamala Harris’ loss. From Shirley Chisholm to Kamala Harris Fifty-two years before Kamala ...

Nicknamed “Fighting Shirley,” Chisholm became the first Black woman ... ending with a clip from Chisholm’s historic 1972 speech announcing her candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

Civil rights leader Al Sharpton invoked Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to serve in Congress, on Thursday night. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Civil rights leader Al Sharpton issued a ...

During her speech on election night, she noted that it had been almost exactly 50 years to the day since Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman ever elected to Congress and that ...