1. Michael Moore on the Election
(Opinions/Interview)

...aking place. AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Michael, you dedicate your election guide to two people. Explain who they are, Shirley Chisholm and Tony Benn. MICHAEL MOORE: Well, Tony Benn is a former member ...

2. The sorrows of race and gender in the 2008 presidential election
(Opinions/Features)

...have been laughed off as crazy. In the first presidential campaign I paid attention to as an eighth-grader in 1972, Shirley Chisholm -- who four years earlier had become the first black woman to win a...

3. Obama, Race, and Youth
(Opinions/Politic)

...vokes a completely standard version of African-American political history as background to Obama. Pointing out that Shirley Chisholm and Jesse Jackson preceded Obama is important. But he and others fo...