Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

Throughout history, progress has never been inevitable ... he became one of the most electrifying and visionary leaders the civil rights and Black liberation movements had ever seen.

On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

Some created secret libraries to check out Black History books, served as community leaders, participated in civil rights marches and demonstrations, and built safe havens where ideas of equality ...

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...

OPB will premiere a new historical documentary on February 25 called "Oregon's Black Pioneers," which explores the largely unknown history of African-Americans who have helped shape the state.

When Kimberly Moreland, president of the Oregon Black Pioneers’ board of directors, presents the stories of Oregon’s early Black residents, she often hears the same response: “I grew up in ...

We have Joseph James, who was a welder who fought for civil rights ... s pioneers, he said, because most World War II patriotic posters only portrayed White people. “These Black Americans ...