He refused the trip to Trump’s White House as a member of the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox. He is the lone Black player on Jackie Robinson’s old team. It is unfair that there is ...

Peter Dreier: Every president likes to get his picture ... Jackie Robinson would be upset that the Dodgers are going to the White House, and I think he’d be extremely disappointed in [Black ...

Opinion On Jackie Robinson Day, remembering the ultimate American hero That’s what the Trump administration wants, though. It is trying to rewrite this country’s history, removing Black and ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball held their annual celebration of Jackie Robinson ... Dodgers’ only Black player, previously stated they would not visit the White House during ...

The opportunity for the Dodgers to regain their stature as agents of change has come and gone, their salute to Robinson ... at the White House: “It comes with the territory, being Black in ...

initiatives − the process of bringing Jackie Robinson into white organized baseball will sound very familiar. Branch Rickey knew that signing the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s ...

Steph Tharpe is a journalist who covers Black enterprise and culture. Jackie Robinson didn't just change baseball — he changed America. In 1947, he became the first Black player in the MLB.