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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Rev. S. Howard Woodson (1916-1999) was the first Black to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly.  He held the ...