A one-woman show coming to West Philly tells the story of a woman often left out of history books: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to run for a major party’s presidential nomination and ...

Shirley is based on the real-life story of Shirley Chisholm. Before her political career, Chisholm studied early childhood education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and taught nursery ...

Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968, and the first woman and African American to run ...