What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Shirley, Netflix’s Shirley Chisholm Biopic Ellin Stein

The Netflix biopic follows Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Here’s what’s truth and what’s bluster.

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