Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson ... should fight for equal rights. After taking the abuse without retaliation for a while, Robinson spoke out. He demanded respect from his ...

Animator Jason Fleurant's Exhibit Treal Studios earned the award for an episode of its children's educational series Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz that paid homage to Jackie Robinson’s sports and ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

Stories of Black History presents the mishandled murder investigation of Johnnie Mae Chappell, a mother of 10 who was shot ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ... Becker, who was just 20 at the time, got quotes from Robinson in the clubhouse and ran them ...

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...