Chisholm Leadership Academy

03/02/2026

Leadership matters. Our daughters are watching.

01/13/2026

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/13/claudette-colvin-dead-civil-rights/

Nine months before Rosa Parks made history, Ms. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus. She became a star witness in a civil rights case.

11/30/2025

Today, we honor the late Shirley Chisholm on what would have been her 101st birthday. A trailblazer in every sense, she changed the face of American politics and opened doors that were never meant to be closed again. Her legacy lives on in every Black woman who leads with courage and carries her vision forward.

01/17/2025

Shirley Chisholm was a staunch proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. In her 1970 speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, she argued that ratification of the ERA was necessary to “clarify countless ambiguities and inconsistencies in our legal system.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5264378/biden-era-national-archivist-constitution

To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the national archivist, who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.

12/11/2024

Shirley Chisholm opened doors for future generations with her brilliance and boldness.

As President of the Senate, I was honored to sign the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act, which grants the late Congresswoman Chisholm the highest civilian award Congress can bestow.

12/10/2024

"let's build / what we become /when we dream."

The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

11/30/2024

On what would have been her 100th birthday, let us celebrate Shirley Chisholm’s brilliance, determination, and grace.

So many of us stand on her broad shoulders. With her spirit and in honor of her legacy, let us continue to speak truth to power and fight for equality and justice for all.

11/06/2024

Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks are the fourth and fifth Black women elected to Congress.

For the first time in more than 200 years, two Black women will serve in the U.S. Senate at the same time, following the election of Angela Alsobrooks in Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester in Delaware

07/21/2024

endorsed as Democratic Presidential Nominee https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4784460-joe-biden-endorses-kamala-harris/

President Biden on Sunday endorsed Vice President Harris to become the Democratic Party’s nominee as he announced he would not seek reelection. “My fellow Democrats, I have decided not …

11/30/2022