Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm in South Carolina. The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873.

Lockheed Martin Corp, rejecting a proposed class action settlement. Because Clemon was the first African-American judge on the federal bench in Alabama, this letter would seem to carry some weight.

In a historic milestone for Oregon’s judiciary, Judge Raymond Dean Crutchley now serves as the first African-American judge east of the Cascades, presiding over the Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Trailblazing Black Judge Clarence Parrish was honored Friday with street signs on Teutonia Avenue between Center and Clarke streets. That area is where his law office used to be. In 1981, Parrish ...