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Danai Gurira to Star as Shirley Chisholm in Feature From Stephanie Allain

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Danai Gurira will play boundary-breaking politician Shirley Chisholm in a new movie aboutChisholm's 1972 presidential run titled The Fighting Shirley Chisholm.

The first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968,Chisholm became the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.

Her boundary-breaking campaign was marked by its youth engagement and her efforts to gain enough delegates to speak at the Democratic Convention. (Chisholm was recently portrayed by Uzo Aduba in Hulu miniseriesMrs.

America.) Cherien Dabis is set to direct from a script byAdam Countee. Stephanie Allain will produce through her Homegrown Pictures banner, with Gabrielle Ebron set to executive produce.

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