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Episode 8: Shirley Chisholm: Founding Mother of Contemporary Black Politics
Shirley Chisholm, Brooklyn’s own, in 1968 the first African American woman elected to Congress. In 1972 she was the first woman nominated to be President. Conversation with Barbara Bullard, a Brooklyn Bed-Sty resident at the forefront of working to protect Chisholm’s legacy and a producer of a planned feature film starring Anika Noni Rose. Joined…