I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am black and proud.

I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally

proud of that.

Before Barack Obama, before Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris, there was Shirley Chislem.

I am the candidate of the people of America.

Susslem spoke these words in 1972,

when she became the first black woman to run for president of the United States.

At the time, she was the first and only black woman in Congress, representing Brooklyn's

bedstine neighborhood.

There are people in our country's history who don't look left or right, they just look straight ahead.

Surely Chisholm was one of those people.

In 2015, Barack Obama posthumously awarded Chisholm, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Recognition of a trailblazing career that went largely under-recognized until recently.

There were so many people who didn't even know her name,

so we felt like their story needs to be told people need to know her name.

That's Oscar winning actress Regina King.

She plays Chislem in a new Netflix movie simply called Shirley.

I have something I want to tell you.

I am running for president.

Of the United States?

Holy.

The film is just the latest way that Shirley Chisholm has become an icon of modern politics and

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