Women have persistently shown strength and resilience when faced with obstacles as well as when placed on an uneven playing ...

In this Women’s History Month feature, host Tezlyn Figaro honors #ShirleyChisholm, who made history on January 21, 1969, as ...

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hosted "The Chisholm Effect," an event at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum that brought civil leaders together to ...

The Playwrights’ Theatre of East Hampton at LTV Studios will present “Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbowed” on Friday, ...

Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, died Saturday at ...

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

Legends like congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, Morrie Turner and Captain Bill Pinkney were all firsts in their field.

Shirley Chisholm on presidential run in 1984 interview ... as well as the first African American and woman to run for president in 1972. Reporter Bill Saylor sat down with Chisholm in 1984 for ...