Eye on Real Estate: Have you seen East New York’s new park? It was named to honor the inspirational Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and first woman to seek the Democratic ...
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 ...
Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president. Nicknamed “Fighting ...