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 ...

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives," Jackie Robinson said not long before he died in 1972.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are set to visit the White House on April 7 to celebrate their 2024 World Series championship, but it ...

Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...

Certainly, Jackie Robinson fits the bill. Paying an extraordinary personal price, he served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II and broke baseball’s color barrier, changing ...

Every day over the past few weeks, the Pentagon has faced questions from angry lawmakers, local leaders and citizens over the removal of military heroes and historic mentions from Defense Department ...

As part of the effort, the department removed articles and images of baseball legend Jackie Robinson ... A biography of World War II veteran and civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was ...

Why is it always attached to Black people?" Smith said. Smith argued that Jackie Robinson was a civil rights trailblazer whose impact extended far beyond baseball. Robinson is widely regarded as ...

The sports world was left furious on Wednesday when a Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson's military service was taken down. It has since been ...

Retired NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III faced intense heat on social media when he said Jackie Robinson breaking ... race relations and civil rights. That should always be acknowledged and ...