George C. Richardson (1931-2021) was a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Bonnie Watson Coleman, is the first Black woman to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first ...

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