Last week we published a chronicle of Shirley Chisholm’s experience as the first Black woman to serve in Congress, and later, to run for president, excerpted from The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 by Clara Bingham. The following account of the first abortion speak-out is also excerpted from Bingham’s revelatory and intimate oral […]

Last week we published a chronicle of Shirley Chisholm’s experience as the first Black woman to serve in Congress, and later, to run for president, excerpted from The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973 by Clara Bingham. The following account of the first abortion speak-out is also excerpted from Bingham’s revelatory and intimate oral […]

Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to serve in Congress (elected in 1968) and the first Black woman to run for President (1972). In these excerpts from her absorbing and poignant account of the early days of the women’s movement, the journalist and author Clara Bingham depicts the obstacles faced by the pioneering politician […]

On July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Forces troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMswith a […]

On July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Forces troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMswith a […]

When it comes to Donald Trump, its always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didnt the various investigations of Trumps Russia connection by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]

When it comes to Donald Trump, its always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didnt the various investigations of Trumps Russia connection by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]

When it comes to Donald Trump, its always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didnt the various investigations of Trumps Russia connection by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]

Donald Trumps plans for overturning the election result if he loses again have become increasingly visible. This year, Team Trumps attack on our election system encompasses three distinct phases. In Phase One, state and local officials loyal to Trumpaided and abetted by outside pressure groups and lawyerserect obstacles designed to suppress votes for Harris, Walz, […]

Donald Trumps plans for overturning the election result if he loses again have become increasingly visible. This year, Team Trumps attack on our election system encompasses three distinct phases. In Phase One, state and local officials loyal to Trumpaided and abetted by outside pressure groups and lawyerserect obstacles designed to suppress votes for Harris, Walz, […]