Shirley Chisholm

Explore the groundbreaking career of the first Black woman to seek the U.S. presidency.

A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972.

What Shirley Chisholm can teach 2020 candidates as they exit.

She is remembered for being a "first," but it was her integrity, courageousness, and conviction that made her an icon.

Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, constantly defied those who tried to constrain her due to race and gender.

As Cornel West is receiving ballot access help from Republicans, 20 years ago Al Sharpton’s campaign for president was largely orchestrated by Roger Stone.

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

Ashley D. Farmer and Tanisha C. Ford explain the importance of biographical writing of African American women and the personal connection involved.

Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down.

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene.

Of mice and men.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

"What the Catholic church wanted us to understand about women and anger—that we simply didn’t experience it—backfired spectacularly."

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.

Since Jeannette Rankin was elected in 1916, 352 women have served in the House and 46 in the Senate. About two-thirds entered Congress during or after the 1990s.

Before presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, before Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, there was Congresswoman and firebrand Bella Abzug.

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?