In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

Thomasville Entertainment Foundation’s free Family Series brings to life the story of Grady County, Georgia, native Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today at age 98. STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006 Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental ...

Former NBA player Jackie Lee Robinson promised to transform a vacant ... board named him a Distinguished Nevadan, and a company biography hailed his “distinguished role in the history of Las ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for the Arts.

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to the civil rights historian.

“And you think of all the things he covered in his life — wars, Jackie Robinson and all of that. He said that piece was the most important one he ever wrote … because he thought it touched a ...

In recognition of Black History Month, the Red Sox Foundation will partner with the Museum of African American History in Boston to provide free admission and tours for all visitors from February ...