1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes first black player of the 20th century to sign an MLB contract. 1949 — Sam Snead wins the Masters, beating Lloyd Mangrum and Johnny Bulla by three strokes.

This Date in Baseball, April 10 - Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st black player to sign a Major League contract ...

If it’s one thing about Black folks, we know how to party! Another thing: While African American history and culture is rarely honored, Black folks have taken it upon themselves to not only honor the ...

Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League ...

including Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson — the first Black MLB player who broke the league’s color barrier, and a World War II veteran — from American history. His feats were “mistakenly ...

A National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad has been restored to its original state months after it was ...

Given the Dodgers’ history of breaking the color barrier by making Jackie Robinson the first Black Major League Baseball player, should that history and Trump’s targeting of DEI have been a factor in ...

Before he broke barriers and records with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was a four-sport phenom at UCLA, starring in football, basketball, track and field, and of course, baseball.

In 2016, Battle “established April as International Black Women’s History Month…in the city of Atlanta to uplift and support the achievements of Black and minority women, and to build ...

Queen of Versailles star Jackie Siegel announced on Instagram on April 8 that her sister, Jessica Mallery, had unexpectedly died from a drug overdose. This news comes after Jackie's husband ...