Unbought and Unbossed

a portrait of Shirley Chisholm, our nation's first African-American congresswoman and a 1972 presidential candidate, inspired by the "When Women Pursue Justice" mural on Nostrand and Greene Avenue in her native Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. “If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Fifty years since her historic congressional election, we recognize many more long overdue firsts (and seconds) for women of color in congress - Ilhan & Rashida, Deb & Sharice, Ayanna & Jahana, Alexandria and Donna