They say there are no stupid questions in journalism, and I tested that theory as a college newspaper reporter when I asked an MLB legend about the even more legendary Jackie Robinson. Was ...

Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Jackie ... erasing Black history. Baseball was as good a place as any to start, and with his signing of Robinson ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the 78th ...

Jackie Robinson ... month. The nearly 3,000-square-foot home was recently listed for rent by its owner, who needs to downsize but hopes to preserve this rare piece of sports and civil rights history.

As a Black baseball player, both Jackie Robinson and his old jersey number ... look like me to take pride in it and understand the history and understand what he went through to get where he ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson ... Defense webpage describing Robinson’s military service was restored last month after it was missing. Pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson ... Defense webpage describing Robinson's military service was restored last month after it was missing. Pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and ...

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 ...

Opinion: Sign up for the Black Tennessee Voices newsletter He, perhaps the most famous DEI hire in American history, understood the value of making an exception in the name of equality. This Jackie ...