Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the Congressional Black Caucus and several other House members unveiled a portrait this week of the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African-American woman to launch a serious run for the White House. Read more.

All grown up now, a group of hero teens are honored.

It was 50 years ago that a group of teens in Wichita, Kansas, pulled a Rosa Parks on the old Dockum Drug Store and sparked a national sit-in movement. On Saturday, hundreds turned out to honor that group of unwitting civil rights giants for their three-week resistance effort that led to copycats in other cities. It was the original Wichita resisters who helped bring about an end to segregated public accommodations. “We simply wanted to make a change and we did,” said Carol Parks Hahn, one of the original squatters. Disgusted at a policy that required Black patrons to go to the end of the lunch counter and ring a bell for service, the defiant teens marched into Dockum’s every day for three weeks and sat at the lunch counter. Of course, they weren’t served. “The owner came in one morning and said serve them I’m losing too much money. I happened to be there that day,” Parks Hahn said. “That’s how simple it was to get rid of a long history of discrimination. We changed the policy of the largest drug chain in Kansas, others in Wichita followed suit. We were very pleased we were successful.” Added Joyce Glass, another participant. “It’s a blessing to be recognized. It’s something I never dreamed of.”

Some want the Black Revolutionary War monument revived. In Virginia, some are pushing for a monument to the Blacks who fought in the Revolutionary War, saying it’s important to let the world know that everybody who fought for U.S. independence from Britain didn’t have pale skin and powdered wigs. One of those making the case for the first memorial on the mall to honor Black colonial soldiers is Maurice Barboza, a Virginian and former lobbyist, who runs something called the National Liberty Fund D.C. In the 1980s, Congress approved the concept, but poor fundraising initiative led to the demise of the project.