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Farming, fighting, forged into steel: We shall not see their like again | MARK HUGHES COBB

Tuscaloosanews.com 27 Mar 2025
But I'm proud to be even a sliver of this great man, so I'll share this glamour shot anyway ... Never More Than 500" on both sides ... I hear him wishing Shirley Chisholm would become president, because hers was the best speech he'd heard at any convention.
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Trump dismantles education department

Korea Times 25 Mar 2025
Shirley Chisholm expressed concern in Trumpian language about the shift in power away from local and state authorities, stating, “We will be minimizing the roles of local and state education ...
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Enough states have ratified the ERA. Does that mean it's part of the Constitution?

Usatoday 22 Mar 2025
While most people might think of the Equal Rights Amendment as a relic of second-wave feminism − when Shirley Chisholm made a run for president, Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes raised their ...
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Uzo Aduba Found ‘The Residence’ Detective Cordelia Cupp in the Show’s ‘Complex’ Writing, Which Helped ...

The Wrap 21 Mar 2025
She won two Emmys (and earned another nomination) for her role as SuzanneCrazy EyesWarren in Netflix’s hit “Orange Is the New Black,” and another for playing Shirley Chisholm — the first Black woman to be elected to Congress — in Hulu’s “Mrs ... .
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Uzo Aduba: ‘I was still thinking about quitting acting even when I was cast in Orange is the New Black’

The Daily Telegraph 21 Mar 2025
From there Aduba went on to star in 2020 Hulu miniseries Mrs America as politician Shirley Chisholm opposite Cate Blanchett and Sarah Paulson; as a therapist in the fourth season of HBO’s In Treatment ...
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Uzo Aduba dons a detective’s cape in ‘The Residence’

The Los Angeles Times 19 Mar 2025
First, there was her piercing fixation as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren in 90 episodes of 'Orange Is the New Black.' Then, her room-commanding gaze as politician Shirley Chisholm in 'Mrs.
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How Natural Hair Rocketed the First Black-Owned Business Onto the Stock Exchange

New York Magazine 19 Mar 2025
Photo. Soul Train/Soul Train via Getty Images ... It went far beyond Dr ... Leaders like Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, and Huey P. Newton were wearing Afros ... Doc Martini ... One enacted a Black woman running for political office, in the vein of Shirley Chisholm.
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Suspect charged in daylight attempted rape of jogger at Shirley Chisholm State Park: DA

AM New York 17 Mar 2025
Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old East New York man in connection with the attempted rape of a 51-year-old woman at Shirley Chisholm State Park in Sept. 2023, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Monday ... ....
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What an All-Female Team to Summit Denali Can Teach Us About Historic Firsts 

Time Magazine 14 Mar 2025
By this time, the U.S ... They soundly proved it ... That doesn’t mean we won’t win.” With that line, Harris was nodding to Shirley Chisholm, who in 1972 was the first black woman to campaign for a Presidential nomination ... Read More ... .
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Shirley Chisholm and Klezmer

The East Hampton Star 13 Mar 2025
of “Shirley Chisholm ... Born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents, in 1968 Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress, where for seven terms she represented a Brooklyn district centered in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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A Parents’ Guide to Navigating New York City Art Museums with Kids

The Villager 13 Mar 2025
Pexels A Parents' Guide to Navigating New York City Art Museums with Kids ... Tip ... Tip ... Another exhibit to check out is Changing the Face of Democracy, where you can learn about the life and impact of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to U.S.
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Leaders in their own right

Deccan Herald 10 Mar 2025
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair,” said Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress and the first black candidate to stand for election as ...
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‘The Chisholm Effect’: Brooklyn celebrates Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s legacy at Children’s Museum

AM New York 07 Mar 2025
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso hosted "The Chisholm Effect," an event at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum that brought civil leaders together to honor the life and legacy of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
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Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and unbossed

Nashville Pride 06 Mar 2025
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
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