There is a long history of Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth flag, but to sum things up: Juneteenth celebrates the ...

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm ... to exclude Black women from feminist and abolitionist circles. Truth spoke with fire and moral force, advocating for the rights of the enslaved, people with low ...

Many of us want to get our minds back. Because our minds have been basically controlled externally now we want to make that control ours and that's what we're about. *** proclamation of self ...

President Biden signed the bipartisan legislation on Dec. 12 to honor the first Black congresswoman. Shirley Chisholm will be ... ceiling for Black women and people in America with her campaign ...

New York City marked the inaugural Shirley Chisholm Day on Saturday ... I ran because most people think the country is not ready for a Black candidate, not ready for a woman candidate.” ...

Barbara Lee, whose relationship with Chisholm was depicted in the Netflix 2024 biopic “Shirley,” came to know the New York lawmaker as president of the Black ... on lifting people out of ...

The photograph, in black and white, is from 1972. It hangs in an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York about Shirley ... part Chisholm said she was “the candidate of the people ...

CHICAGO — "We are a party of the future, we're not a party of the past," Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison proclaimed during his remarks to the sparse yet lively crowd of the Black Caucus ...

Nearly two decades after the death of the legendary Shirley Chisholm ... top aide to D.C. Mayor Marion Barry (D). “People are fighting against Black women. We can’t do that to ourselves.” ...