The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.

On June 14, in Clayton, N.C., about 43 miles east of the Duke campus, celebrated actor and university professor Mike Wiley, ...

Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland ...

Robinson, meanwhile, was Rookie of the Year in 1947 and the NL MVP two years later. In his 10 years in the majors, he was either an All-Star or an MVP candidate, or both, in all but one season.

Not viewing Jackie Robinson through the prism of race is like not viewing food through the prism of taste. Yes, Robinson was many things besides a Black man who broke a sport’s color barrier ...

On Jackie Robinson Day in 2022, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “What he did was incredible, but we’ve got to do him right by keep going.”. On Jackie Robinson Day in 2023 ...

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

Jackie Robinson is a Civil Rights hero. DEI helped him make history | Opinion For those who think DEI is an attack against meritocracy, or some evil, Democrat-hatched strategy to 'divide America ...

Let's acknowledge how tough Jackie Robinson was — and why he had to be On Tuesday, as it has since 2004, Major League Baseball is commemorating the day 78 years ago that Robinson played his ...

A Floral Park man was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Ridgewood ...

With apologies to Chuck Berry, John Fogerty and Jackie Robinson, it is safe to say that the Walker High construction project ...

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...