Today in Black History: The First African-American Congresswoman

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn, N.Y., becomes the first African American woman elected to Congress.    Click Here to purchase your copy of “Unbought and Unbossed” by Shirley Chisholm Today’s Birthday Ike Turner Soul/R&B musician, bandleader and singer, born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He was known for his work with his then wife Tina Turner as one