Two local nonprofits — the Business Association of West Parkside and Parkside Association of Philadelphia — are joining ...

America regularly enforced segregation, especially after the American Civil War. This also included baseball, the rapidly ...

The Negro Southern League Museum is set to host Jackie Robinson Day 2025 on Saturday, April 12, in downtown Birmingham.This ...

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

Author and professor Peter Dreier has strongly criticized the Los Angeles Dodgers for accepting President Donald Trump’s invitation to the White House following their 2024 World Series win.

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.

In addition, the visit comes after Dodger great Jackie Robinson’s entire military career, along with the stories of the Navajo Code Talkers and Ira Hayes, was erased from the Defense Department’s ...

Seventy-six years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League Baseball. Now, every April 15, MLB celebrates “Jackie Robinson Day ...

So when Trump sent a White House invitation to the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers — the franchise of Jackie Robinson, a team whose identity is indelibly linked to its role in ...

For the last couple of decades, a Jackie Robinson poster has been on the wall above my desk. In addition to a photo of the Brooklyn Dodgers/civil rights icon, the poster includes the definition of ...

J. Robinson West is a senior adviser with CSIS Energy and National Security Program. The former chairman and founder of PFC Energy (1984-2013), he has advised chief executives of leading national and ...

So another Jackie Robinson Day is almost upon us. Another day to celebrate the achievement of Robinson when, on April 15, 1947, he ran out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first ...