There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Gibson was a star of the Negro Leagues, a branch of American baseball that originated in the early ... the Jackie Robinson ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

Jackie Robinson's mother, Sidney Poitier and Octavia Butler all ... "I've cried so much that I can't cry anymore … that ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

In the early 1970s, there weren't many Black doctors ... Hilliard said his friend had diverse interests beyond medicine. After Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers and broke major ...

Lois was employed at Sun Oil Company for 25 years before taking an early ... her husband Jackie. Lois is survived by; her daughter Jo Cinderella (Thomas); her beloved sister Rita Robinson; her ...

Jackie Robinson ... Brooks Robinson, who fired to first baseman Boog Powell for the final out, as signaled by Ashford. "It's been a long hard climb, but here I am," Ashford said at the time, "I've ...

Robinson, a double-double machine in her time at Wilson, had not only 17 points, but 15 rebounds Friday. She is now 49 rebounds away from 1,000, which would make her the first 1,000-1,000 player in ...

She is now 49 rebounds away from 1,000, which would make her the first 1,000-1,000 player in coach Jackie Bryan's 18 years at Wilson. Robinson also ... Gap found some life late though, going ...

I learned early on how big Jackie Robinson was to the Black community. My father, he and his boys would go up to the World Series games in 1947, ’49, ’52, ’53. I mean, I’ve been around sports all my ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...