Shirley Chisholm

Michelle Obama talks black obesity, breast-feeding and $31 million

2010-09-16 16:35:58

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Geraldine Ferraro and the 'dark backward and abysm' of political time

2011-03-27 16:33:51

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Iowa caucus-goers are also neighbors, friends

2008-01-02 00:00:00

Fred Adams, a retired Drake University history professor, wandered across the street from his house for a neighborhood party the Sunday before Christmas -- 5-8 p.m., food and drinks -- where he spotted Tammy Gentry. "I saw my opportunity," Adams said...

Obama, pro and con

2008-11-16 00:00:00

A quantum leap in racial progress, but not the end By any measure, this is a monumental day in our nation's history. African Americans are rightly proud. The brutal facts of black existence -- slavery, segregation and the stunting of social and political...

Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

2008-09-04 00:00:00

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to...

28 days in the integration nation

2007-02-28 00:00:00

For the white male power structure that sabotaged the Susan B. Anthony dollar, kept Chief Jay Strongbow out of the highest echelons of professional wrestling and posited a "White Christmas" as the last word in holiday cheer, it must have seemed like a...

Race, post race

2008-11-05 00:00:00

More than half a century ago, Langston Hughes captured the debilitating divide in the destinies of white and black children in his poem "Children's Rhymes": "By what sends / the white kids / I ain't sent: / I know I can't / be PresidentBy what sends / the...

HU Professor Wayne Dawkins to speak on voting-rights activist Andrew Cooper

2012-10-04 00:00:00

There’s an old saying that behind every great man, you’ll find a great woman. The reverse might be said in the case of Shirley Chisholm who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 12th District of New York (Brooklyn) for close...

Church hosts Tuesday debate over Fair Districts amendment

2010-10-11 16:35:13

Race is sensitive subtext in Obama's campaign

2007-02-06 00:00:00

The expected launch of Barack Obama's presidential campaign is still days away, but his quest to become the nation's first black commander in chief already is forcing a delicate examination of how candidates talk about race. That conversation took an...

Trinity United Church of Christ celebrates Obama win

2008-11-10 06:16:00

At Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, where President-elect Barack Obama embraced Christianity, the pastor and congregation rejoiced Sunday and shouted, "Yes, we did!" Hundreds of worshipers packed into the sanctuary for a joyous...

Is America ready for a real black president?

2008-01-28 08:15:44

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....

In 1969, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, of New York, was sworn in as the first African-American woman in Congress. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives until 1983.

2012-03-30 10:09:00