Alan Torres   Eugene Register-Guard Show Caption Oregon has one of the smallest populations of Black residents in the U.S., a reality shaped by its history. Oregon was the only state to include a Black exclusion law in its founding constitution in 1859. Despite exclusion laws, some Black pionee...

Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a truth he had been trying to deny, that he had taken part in the melee that broke out two months ea...