A new book presents the baseball legend’s testimony in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee as a critical ...

Jackie Robinson, born in 1919, became the first Black athlete to integrate Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. His legacy includes: Trailblazer: Robinson’s courage and ...

Happy Heavenly Birthday To Baseball Legend And Civil Rights Pioneer Jackie Robinson Happy Birthday To Baseball Legend Jackie Robinson ...

— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...

A new book examines the baseball great's politics and the pressure he was put under by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by ...

The game between the Jupiter Hammerheads and the Palm Beach Cardinals is April 15, the day Jackie Robinson debuted with the ...

The most famous uniform number in baseball, not to mention all of sports, is 42, and with good reason. It is the number Jackie Robinson wore when he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, ...

Keeping the “memory and values alive for today’s ... players and fans.” Seventy-five years ago, Jackie Robinson debuted as a first baseman with the Brooklyn Dodgers while donning jersey No. 42.