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Social Justice Symposium Week hosted by the Hedgeman Center kicked off on Tuesday, April 1, in the Klas Center. This year’s ...
As the author, with quotes from renowned global luminaries ... Barbara was invited to speak at The Library of Congress as an entrepreneur and President of the Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute on ...
Fifty-two years before Kamala Harris came close to being elected the first woman president of the United States, a New Yorker named Shirley Chisholm – who in 1968 had made history as the first ...
If Harris' campaign is the coconut, then Shirley Chisholm is the biggest branch which grows from a tall trunk grown strong ...
Different times have changed the politics of the day, but it is comforting and instructive to recall a moment where a rabbi’s ...
History was made in 1968 when Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress. She served New York’s 12th Congressional District, which included her neighborhood of Crown Heights, ...