Mel Cozzi and George Howe, Board of Commissioners for the City of Oregon, join WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to highlight the City of Oregon and all that it has to offer for visitors. Mel and ...

In 1844, when Oregon was still a territory, it passed its first Black exclusionary law. It banned slavery, but it also prohibited Black people from living in the territory for more than three years.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The population in the state of Oregon is almost 87% white and only 2.2% Black according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "Often you will be the only one at work, you'll be the only ...

Discriminatory laws in Oregon continued through the decades after statehood. In 1883, an attempt to amend the state constitution’s prohibition of black suffrage failed, even though the ban had ...

Oregonians generally believe the state's black history dates back to the shipyards in the 1940s. An exhibit at the Oregon History Museum addresses an overlooked, earlier era of Oregon's African ...

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.From ...

In 2019 the average first home purchased by a Black buyer was valued at $127,000 but accrued $90,000 in mortgage debt, while first-time homes purchased by white buyers were valued at $139,000 with ...

In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains.

A home that was a fixture of Bobby Fouther's childhood is now a parking lot, the two-story, shingle-sided house having been demolished in the 1970s along with m ...