In 1969, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black U.S. congresswoman at 44 years old. The Brooklyn representative’s objection to her assignment on the agriculture committee reads today as a justified ...

“Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed,” a solo work written and performed by Ingrid Griffith, is an intimate look at an African American woman determined to make the Land of Opportunity deliver on its ...

When President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Rep. Shirley Chisholm last week, he was doing more than honoring the first African-American congresswoman. He was ...

AMHERST, NY — The Amherst Main Public Library will be under a new name in the near future. On Monday, the town of Amherst announced that they will be renaming the library after Shirley Chisholm, the ...

“Our confrontation must be against women in the kitchen. Our confrontation must be against blacks at the back door and women at the bedroom door. Those bad, old days are dead.” Thus spoke U.S. Rep.

After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today? By Jeremy W.

With a countdown and a ceremonial snip, the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center is officially open in Central Brooklyn. The $141 million project, led by Council Member Farah Louis in partnership with ...

As part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's effort to end “woke ideology,” the state's higher education board “censored” a sociology textbook by removing an entire chapter on race and ethnicity, and ...