African American Political Pioneer Chisholm Dies
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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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Democratic presidential  hopeful Barack Obama, citing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln,  pledged on Saturday to bridge the partisan divide in  Washington, end the war in Iraq and transform American politics  as the first black U.S. president.
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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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KOGELO, Kenya  - Senator Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother said her grandson is "full of surprises" and will come back from defeat in New Hampshire's primary to become the first black U.S. president.
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By Melanie D. Scott, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, soul singer Otis Redding, poet Langston Hughes and the first African-American millionaire, Madam C.J.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, pledged on Saturday to bridge the partisan gridlock in Washington, end the war in Iraq and transform American politics as the first black U.S. president.
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Historian and intellectual icon Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a Kennedy confidant and liberal standard-bearer who was a fixture in Washington political life for decades, died Wednesday night in Manhattan at the age of 89.
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The morning 23-year-old Sean Bell was shot to death by police, his grieving relatives did something that has become almost routine in such cases: They called the Rev. Al Sharpton. Within hours, the longtime civil rights activist had consoled relatives, held two news conferences, and begun organizing a community rally for the next day.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards honored the legacy of slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King on Monday and said his work paved the way for this year's precedent-shattering White House candidacies.
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The New Orleans mayor could fill a vacuum if the state's most influential African-American politician goes down
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a conservative political scientist who became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died at her home outside Washington late Thursday, colleagues announced today. She was 80.
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Democrat Major Owens was preceded in Congress by Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress. She was also the first black woman to wage a serious campaign for president. What year did she run for that office?  1976 1980 1972 1968
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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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Anita Brown, 63, who in the late 1990s overcame her fear of technology and became a major proponent of the Internet in the black community, died Sept. 8 of cardiac arrest at Washington Hospital Center. She lived in the District.
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Democratic rising-star Barack Obama became the lone African American senator, beating ultra-conservative talk show host Alan Keyes in a landslide in Illinois.
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Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to serve in Congress and one of the first women to seek the presidential nomination of a major party.
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The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76.