Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (born 1924) was the first Black woman to serve in the United States Congress. She served as the representative for the 12th district of New York from 1969 until 1982. I...
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StopYassky.com it seems pretty clear that opposition to David Yassky in the race for Major Owens' congressional seat is intense.
Some of it is about development, or more specifically, Yassky's fin...
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2007. There are 132 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Two hundred years ago, on Aug. 21, 1807, Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat set...
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Barack Obama may be the first sitting member of the Congressional Black Caucus to run for president in more than 30 years yet rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has the edge in endorsements among the gro...
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Sen. Joe Biden spent his first day as an official presidential candidate regretting his description of Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama as "clean," and explaining why he had dissed Sen. Hillary R...
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Being black doesn't necessarily mean White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has a lock on black voters. In wooing a faithful Democratic constituency, Obama faces two-term New York Sen. Hillary Rodha...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got more than an education when he attended Harvard Law School in the late 1980s. He also got a healthy stack of parking tickets, most of which he nev...
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David Yassky, a Brooklyn City Council member and former aide to Senator Chuck Schumer, will run for an open Brooklyn Congressional seat next year, Mr. Yassky told The Observer.Mr. Yassky will seek ...
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Yvette Clarke (l) and singer Roberta Flack (r)
Plenty of women descended onto the City Hall steps this afternoon in support of Yvette Clarke's bid for the 11th congressional seat in Brooklyn, wh...
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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
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