Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president.

Nicknamed “Fighting Shirley,” Chisholm kicked down barriers for women in politics and became a prime example of taking control of one’s destiny.

‘Spirit and Spunk’: Chisholm’s early years

Chisholm’s story begins in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born the oldest of four daughters to Charles St. Hill, a factory laborer from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. She spent part of her childhood in Barbados on her grandmother's farm, where she received a British education.

Chisholm said in a previous interview Barbados was where she gained the ‘spirit and spunk’ to challenge the status quo – characteristics she would carry for the rest of her life.

After graduating from Brooklyn College cum laude in 1946, Chisholm began her career as a nursery school teacher and then as the director of two daycare centers. In 1949, Chisholm married Conrad Q. Chisholm, who was a private investigator.

In 1951, she earned a master’s degree from Columbia University in early childhood education. By 1960, she was a consultant for New York City’s Division of Daycare.

Chisholm had always been a fighter for social equality within her community – she joined the local Brooklyn chapters of the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Urban League and the Democratic Party Club.

‘Unbought and Unbossed’

Chisholm took her passion for helping others to a new level by entering into politics. In 1964, Chisholm became the second African American elected in the New York State Legislature.

When court-ordered redistricting created a new, heavily Democratic Congressional district in her neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Chisholm seized the opportunity to run.

While campaigning, Chisholm would roam the new district in a sound truck announcing “Ladies and gentlemen, this is fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through.”

She won her seat and broke historic grounds by becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Once in office, Chisholm wasted no time speaking out and fighting for issues that mattered to her. According to the New York Times, Chisholm said in her victory speech, “Just wait, there may be some fireworks.”

In her first floor speech, she spoke out against the Vietnam War. She also spoke out against being assigned to the Committee on Agriculture, stating it did not reflect her constituents who lived in an urban area. She was later reassigned to the Veterans Committee. She then served on the Committee on Education and Labor. She also served as secretary of the Democratic Caucus.

Chisholm introduced over 50 pieces of legislation, including playing a key role in the passage of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that is still used to this day.

She was fluent in Spanish and stood up for the rights of immigrants, children, women and low-income families. Her iconic campaign motto, “Unbought and Unbossed,” helped her stand out as a fearless leader.

Running for president

In 1972, Chisholm announced she was running for president – becoming the first woman and African American to seek a major party’s nomination.

In a previous interview, one reporter questioned whether she believed America was ready for a president that was both Black and a woman.

“I think what is even more important than whether or not America is ready for me as a president is to begin to prepare America for the fact that it is time that other people in America besides white males run for the highest office of this flag," Chisholm said. "It’s a preparation for the atmosphere to bring about the realization that someday Blacks will lead this country…that someday women will lead this country. That’s what this is all about.”

Running as a Black woman wasn’t easy – she had to sue her way into televised debates which only allowed her to make one speech. She also survived three assassination attempts. Despite these obstacles, Chisholm did not let that deter her.

“I have always been a catalyst for change,” Chisholm said in a previous campaign speech. “You’re going to have the doomsday criers out here saying that, ‘the woman is crazy, she’s nuts,’ but they said I was crazy from 20 years ago when I first emerged on the political scene. So let them continue to think I’m crazy.”

In the end, Chisholm’s campaign was underfunded and she ended up losing her candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. Despite that, Chisholm came in fourth place, receiving 152 delegate votes.

Chisholm would keep her seat in Congress and stayed until 1982. She founded the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971 and the Congressional Women’s Caucus in 1977. Through her time she sponsored increases in federal funding to extend the hours of daycare facilities and a guaranteed annual income for families.

In a previous New York Times interview, Chisholm said she had been misunderstood during her career – mentioning how her supporters were shocked when she visited former Alabama governor George C. Wallace, a segregationist known for his racist remarks, who was injured after an assassination attempt in 1972. She said she never wanted what happened to him to happen to anyone else.

Chisholm said Wallace ultimately helped her pass a piece of legislation through the House of Representatives that extended federal minimum-wage provisions to domestic workers by convincing his fellow Southern congress members to vote in favor.

After leaving Congress, Chisholm co-founded the National Political Congress of Black Women. She taught at Mt. Holyoke College in 1983. She died in 2005 in Ormond Beach, Florida at age 80.

‘Bring your own folding chair’: Chisholm’s lasting legacy

Chisholm’s legacy continues to inspire a new class of leaders, including Kamala Harris, who became the first woman, first Black and South Asian to be vice president of the United States.

Chisholm’s outspokenness challenged voters to question the status quo, and reimagine what a successful politician could look like.

In 2015, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama.

Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, who became the first Black woman elected to the House of Democrats leadership team since Chisholm, paid homage to her in a tweet, stating, “Shirley Chisholm taught me that if people don’t invite you to the table, bring your own folding chair. Doing that to stand up for my community fuels me everyday.”

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The cast and crew of a TV show filming in Brooklyn helped rescue a teenage boy who was pinned underneath an SUV near their set Monday evening.

Surveillance footage obtained by WCBS shows the moment the vehicle jumped a curb and hit 14-year-old Nam Phuong as he was walking his dog in the neighborhood of Gravesend.

The local news outlet reports that the drama series “Gravesend,” named after the neighborhood, was shooting a scene right around the corner from where the crash happened.

William DeMeo, who stars in the show, told KCBS that the people on set ran over, saw the boy’s leg outside the car, and heard the teen screaming.

DeMeo says he tried calming the boy.

“I’m like, ‘You’re fine buddy. You’re going to be OK,” he said.

The group then jumped into action.

WABC obtained a video from a witness that shows multiple people working together to lift the vehicle off of the boy.

The group was able to free the teen and he was transported to an area hospital, where the news outlets report he was listed in critical but stable condition.

“I’m very glad we were there because it was a side street, so if there wasn’t that many people on the corner, he might have been under that car for a lot longer,” said DeMeo.

Police told WABC that an 80-year-old woman was driving the vehicle that hit the teen. Officers say the car’s brakes stopped working, she lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the teen. He’s expected to recover, according to authorities.

DeMeo told WCBS that he can’t wait to see the boy again and invite him to the set once he has recovered.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (KMTV) - Pew Research Center reports about a fifth of adults moved because of COVID-19 or know someone that did. Here's a story of one family who made the move.

Glenwood, Iowa, native Christina Duran first moved to New York City as a young, single 22-year-old. Eventually, she met her husband and started a family but the pandemic changed their comfortable lifestyle.

"When the pandemic hit last year, we were in a three-bedroom apartment. Everything shut down in New York City, everyone was just locked in their houses. Here I'm looking at these three little kids, that are like, 'What are we gonna do?" Christina said.

That's when Christina and her husband decided to move back to the Heartland, calling it a "perfect storm" of circumstances.

"We looked at each other and said, 'What are we doing?'" Christina said. "Are we really going to go back and just sit?"

The move hasn't come without its challenges.

"It was an adjustment for my husband because he's Dominican. There's very little Dominican cuisine [or] Dominican culture here. In New York, it's like little Santo Domingo," Christina said.

But her three children, like her son Marcus, aren't having much trouble.

"When I first moved here, I just got popular for no reason," Marcus said.

Marcus gives credit to his background.

"It was just like, everyone thought I was cool because I was from New York," Marcus said.

Ultimately, Christina calls the move to Glenwood a "full-circle" moment.

"While I can't change the world, I can release three good humans into it and hope that little seed kind of grows and they can impact each one of the people they come into contact with and maybe we can get back to a more caring, kind, place for all of us to be," Christina said.

This story originally reported by Isabella Basco on 3NewsNow.com.

WARNING: Some testimony and evidence presented during the trial may be upsetting to viewers.

Testimony entered its third day of the Cristhian Bahena Rivera murder trial on Friday. Bahena Rivera is charged in the 2018 death of Iowa 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.

Below are summaries of each testimony:

DNA expert explains blood, semen testing done on evidence

Iowa State Crime Lab criminalist Tara Scott took the stand to testify about DNA in the case. They first discussed the items found at Blake Jack’s home when Tibbetts was originally reported missing. Scott and her colleagues took multiple items from the home including a water bottle, toothbrush and drinks.

The water bottle was compared to DNA collected from Tibbetts’ mother and father to confirm her DNA profile.

Scott also testified to testing items from the cornfield including the black running shorts, the pink fabric believed to be a headband, and the striped fabric believed to be underwear.

On 15 areas tested on the black shorts, results came back negative for sperm and inconclusive for blood. No DNA samples were taken on the short.

For the pink fabric, there were no stains so there were no tests conducted.

The striped underwear found presence of blood in one area, but not sperm. However, the blood sample was too weak for a DNA test.

Scott and her colleagues examined two items from Bahena Rivera’s residence, including a folding knife, which had tested negative for blood, and a stained napkin which tested positive for Bahena Rivera’s blood.

Scott reviewed her findings from the stains in the trunk of the black Chevrolet Malibu. The stain found on the seal of the trunk lid was confirmed as blood with DNA that matched Tibbetts. Scott said there was also blood confirmed to be Tibbetts on the trunk’s lining.

She said the football and fishing pole tested positive for blood, but the DNA was too weak to identify who it belonged to.

During cross-examination, Scott said she was unable to locate DNA through swabs of Tibbetts’ body including Tibbetts’ DNA.

The defense also asked about taking DNA samples from any of the individuals who were at Jack’s home when Tibbetts initially went missing. Scott said she didn’t request DNA samples and wasn’t provided any.

DCI testifies to bloodstains in vehicle, Tibbetts' clothing found distance away from crime scene

Amy Johnson, with the Division of Criminal Investigation, said she was involved in processing a black Chevrolet Malibu and a Nissan Altima.

Johnson said that in the trunk of the Chevrolet Malibu there were a total of four stains that tested positive for blood. Some of the stains were located on a football and fishing pole.

Johnson and her colleagues were called to 2478 460^th Ave. at about 6 a.m. on Aug. 21, 2018. When they arrived, her colleagues and the state medical examiner entered the cornfield where Tibbetts body was located.

She described Tibbetts’ body being found with her arms above her head and her legs slightly apart. Johnson stated Tibbetts did not have underwear or shorts on at the time they found her.

A sketch created by Johnson shows the underwear and shorts were found 15 to 24 feet away from the scene where Tibbetts’ body was found.

Johnson also processed Bahena Rivera's residence where she told the court there was no evidence of Tibbetts.

Cross-examination of Pamela Romero

Court proceedings began with the continued cross-examination of former Iowa City police Officer Pamela Romero.

During the investigation of Tibbetts’ disappearance, Romero conducted interviews with Bahena Rivera in Spanish. Some of his initial interview statements were thrown out because Romero failed to properly issue him a Miranda warning.

On Thursday, Romero testified that Bahena Rivera confessed to Mollie Tibbetts' murder and led investigators to her body.

During Thursday’s cross-examination, the defense argued Romero wore Bahena Rivera down after 14 hours of working on the farm and tried to provoke him into a false confession after an 11-hour interview.

On Friday, the defense showed fast-forwarded footage of Bahena Rivera appearing to fall asleep while alone in the interview room. Romero stated that she did not observe Bahena Rivera falling asleep during the interview.

The defense asked Romero why she accused Bahena Rivera of being untruthful during her interview with him, to which she stated, "At the beginning of the interview he said he wasn’t aware of (Tibbetts). Then we showed him the black Malibu that he admitted was his."

Some generous donors have helped a Brooklyn mom out of a jam after her 4-year-old son ordered more than $2,600 worth of popsicles on Amazon.Noah Bryant managed to order 51 cases of SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles with 918 popsicles inside.Amazon won’t take them back, and Noah’s mom, a social work student at New York University and mother of three boys, couldn’t afford to pay for them.A family friend created a GoFundMe, and donors paid off the massive popsicle bill and then some. Noah’s mom says any extra cash will help pay for his special needs schooling."As a parent to a child living with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), all additional donations will go toward Noah's education and additional supports," Jennifer Bryant wrote on the GoFundMe page. "We cannot thank you enough. Truly."Watch the video above to learn more about this story.