Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.

‘Shirley’ puts special focus on the political career of Shirley Chisholm, the first-ever Black congresswoman ... that creation and what led Mattel to greenlight the decision to make it. Directed by ...

Nov. 5 marked the historic 56th anniversary of the first African-American woman being elected to the U.S. Congress, Rep.

On Jan. 25, 1972, at the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for president of the United States, becoming the first African American to ...

Ingrid Griffith, the creator and performer of “Unbossed and Unbowed”, portrays the trailblazer Shirley Chisholm and inhabits ... Depression and in order to make ends meet, they decided to ...

The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics, the highly anticipated new book by MSNBC political analyst J ...

With Butler, Lee teamed up to pass one of the final bills of the 118th Congress, awarding the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to her mentor and friend Shirley Chisholm, another trailblazer ...

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California was the only lawmaker to vote against authorizing the use of military force against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. She's now leaving Congress and ...

During her more than two decades in Congress, Rep. Barbara Lee has been the only Black woman elected to the House from California's regions north of Los Angeles. WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.

awarding the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to her mentor and friend Shirley Chisholm, another trailblazer — the first Black woman elected to Congress, joining in 1969, who went on to make a ...