Antonio Javar mentors and works alongside youth for organizations like the YMCA and the National Action Network. Antonio Javar addresses the audience on Shirley Chisholm Day 2014 in Brooklyn College.
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Shirley Chisholm Day 2014: Frank Leon Roberts “Think of Ferguson As Part Of A Broader, Global Narrative”
Frank Leon Roberts is a columnist for the Huffington Post and visiting faculty at New York University. Frank Leon Roberts addresses the audience on Shirley Chisholm Day 2014 in Brooklyn […]
Read MoreShirley Chisholm Day 2014: Antonio Javar “Change Starts With Us”
Antonio Javar mentors and works alongside youth for organizations like the YMCA and the National Action Network. Antonio Javar addresses the audience on Shirley Chisholm Day 2014 in Brooklyn College.
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End of Year Letter 2014
It’s been a very hectic, exciting and rewarding year for the Shirley Chisholm Project. We have been on the road publicizing Project Director Barbara Winslow’s Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change […]
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Leah Soffian asks WWSCD?
Leah Soffian a Brooklyn College student following in Shirley Chisholm's (another BC alum '46) footsteps.
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President Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Famous Civil Rights Activists
The Shirley Chisholm Project honored the lives of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner at Shirley Chisholm Day 2010. We welcomed Ben Chaney, David Goodman Steve […]
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Project Director Barbara Winslow to Speak at Schomburg
Join Schomburg Education for the third season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies, a dynamic adult education series featuring a full lineup of provocative scholars and community members committed to […]
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SCP goes to Congress to view Shirley Chisholm Portrait
Director Barbara Winslow, Project Manger Leslie Anselme and Videographer Nila Popal had the honor of not only viewing the larger-than-life full-color portrait of Shirley Chisholm in the Capitol, but we […]
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CreativeTime & Weeksville Heritage Center Presents Black Radical Brooklyn
Presented by Creative Time and Weeksville Heritage Center, Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn will include a series of diverse, community-based artist commissions, launching this fall in Brooklyn’s […]
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Catalyst for Change and Barbara Winslow Featured on CUNY Book Beat
Shirley Chisholm–Remembering a Hero March 24, 2014 | Book Beat Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and one of Brooklyn College’s most famous alumni. Yet many […]
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Brooklyn Fifth Grader Speaks on Chisholm
Hi, I am Shirlla a 5th grade student from PS 316. In my class, we have been studying the struggles of African Americans. One person in particular is Shirley Chisholm. […]
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Newsday Mentions Catalyst for Change in Paterson Obituary
Basil Paterson dies and the Harlem Generation Loses a Founder by Dan Janison Basil A. Paterson, who died at 87 on Wednesday, belonged to a generation of clubhouse Harlem politicos […]
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The Chisholm Project Remembers Basil Paterson
The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women's Activism celebrates the life and mourns the passing of Basil Paterson; leading figure in New York State Politics, close friend, colleague and political […]
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New Documentary Celebrates Former Chisholm Day Speaker
Standing By Her Story: Anita Hill is Celebrated in the Documentary 'Anita' WALTHAM, Mass. — On the day in 1991 that the Senate confirmed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, […]
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Shirley Chisholm Women’s Empowerment Conference
A major women’s group in Brooklyn will on Saturday, March 15 hold its Third Annual Shirley Chisholm Women’s Empowerment Conference, saluting the legacy of New York City’s first black Congresswoman, […]
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