First black US Congresswoman dies
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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Not sure where I heard this, but if Bill can be the first black president, then Barack can be the first woman president.  Pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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Democratic Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, has died of complications from a rare disease, his family said Sunday.
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Serena Williams was the first black woman since Althea Gibson to win the US Open. Venus Williams was the first black woman since Gibson to win Wimbledon.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died today, a family spokeswoman said.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress and a champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida, congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, Monday paid tribute to the &quot;brave souls&quot; killed in Tiananmen Square on the 18th anniversary of China&#39;s crackdown on democracy activists.
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Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of three civil-rights workers killed in the "Mississippi Burning" case in 1964, has died, her son said Wednesday. Chaney, 84, had lived to see a reputed Klan leader convicted two years ago in the young men's deaths.
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Lady Bird Johnson, whose helped President Lyndon B. Johnsonâs road to the White House, has died at 94.
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CQPolitics.com has entered a partnership with C-SPAN to launch a new Web site, CampaignNetwork.org. C-SPAN has been broadcasting sessions of Congress since 1979. Who was the first member of Congress to give a House floor speech on the network?  Al Gore Newt Gingrich Barbara Jordan Tip O'Neill
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Rep. Julia Carson, who rose from a childhood of poverty and segregation to become the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Saturday. She was 69.
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New Orleans area U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation into $90,000 found in his freezer.
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Colin Powell was the first black man to hold the post of US Secretary of State, the most senior job in the US cabinet. He was born to Jamaican parents in New York City on April 5, 1937.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who quietly served as one of the most trusted advisers to her husband President Lyndon Johnson, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 94, family spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said.
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The US Congress on Wednesday passed its first 2008 legislation by condemning the murder of Pakistan's ex-premier Benazir Bhutto amid a call for a shift in US policy towards Islamabad.
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A US diplomat in Sudan is killed in a shooting incident in the capital, Khartoum, US officials say.