More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...

Dr. George E. Cannon (1869-1925) was a physician and New Jersey Black Republican leader from Jersey City who seconded the ...

The road to establishing a legal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New Jersey was a slow one. During ...

Donald Payne, Sr. (1934-2012) was the first Black  to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. He had run ...

An iconic Newark maverick whose boyhood in the South under Jim Crow laws shaped Ronald Rice’s lifelong mission as a fierce ...

Cory Booker is the first Black candidate to win statewide office in New Jersey.  He was elected to the United States Senate ...

Sheila Oliver was New Jersey’s trailblazing two-term lieutenant governor who became the first woman of color to serve as ...

Gov. Phil Murphy has picked Tahesha L. Way, his Secretary of State since 2018, as New Jersey’s next lieutenant governor in ...

Calvin D. West (1932-2019) was a legendary and beloved Newark political figure for parts of seven decades and the first ...

Glenn Cunningham (1943-2004) was the first and only Black to win election for mayor of Jersey City. After serving in the ...

Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)  became the first  Black to serve as mayor of a major northeastern city when he ousted two-term ...

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  A Newark physician, Inge was elected ...