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.

1947 — Jackie Robinson became the first black player of the 20th century to sign a major league contract. Robinson agreed a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

A man in California has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend's mother, with prosecutors saying he "brutally beat" ...

The U.S. Naval Academy faces backlash for flagging Jackie Robinson’s biography amid a DEI policy shift, sparking concerns.

Robinson was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1962. He died Oct. 24, 1972, according to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. “Jackie Robinson made my success possible,” Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Thank you, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, for revealing what the removal of a Jackie Robinson biography from a government website really meant. | Opinion ...

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement. Last Tuesday ESPN ...

His name: Jackie Robinson. Robinson is best known, of course, for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947. But on July 6, 1944, Robinson refused a driver’s order to move to the back of an ...

For me, Jackie Robinson was one of the first people that I knew was a hero. His time in the Army in the 1940s and then being the Black player in modern Major League Baseball should have granted ...

The Pentagon is blaming the controversial digital erasure of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and other prominent people of color on artificial intelligence — not on overzealous defense officials ...

The Pentagon removed a webpage honoring Jackie Robinson, stating that 'DEI is dead.' The removed page, celebrating Robinson's achievements and military service, was part of an article titled ...