Since the project broke ground, neighbors have waited anxiously for the community room at Shirley Chisholm Village to open to ...

With a countdown and a ceremonial snip, the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center is officially open in Central Brooklyn. The $141 million project, led by Council Member Farah Louis in partnership with ...

The Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn is public architecture at its best. The new facility named after the first Black woman elected to Congress was designed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shirley Chisholm Village was build to provide affordable housing to San Francisco teachers. Yet, most of the residents aren't ...

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 ...

With a countdown and a ceremonial snip, the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center is officially open in Central Brooklyn. The $141 million project, led by Council Member Farah Louis in partnership with ...

AMHERST, NY — The Amherst Main Public Library will be under a new name in the near future. On Monday, the town of Amherst announced that they will be renaming the library after Shirley Chisholm, the ...

Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis is gearing up to play groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm in a film for Amazon Studios. The company said Thursday that Davis has signed on to star in and ...

“Our confrontation must be against women in the kitchen. Our confrontation must be against blacks at the back door and women at the bedroom door. Those bad, old days are dead.” Thus spoke U.S. Rep.

You can read this quote by Shirley Chisholm, which she used as her 1967 campaign slogan, in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Chisholm here. Suggested Reading Exclusive: Jasmine ...