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 ...

Eugene Robinson writes a column on politics and culture and hosts an online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Washington Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor ...

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

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

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

Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS): On Jackie Shroff’s 68th birthday on Saturday, actor Anil Kapoor sent out warm wishes to his brother from ‘last and next life’. Anil took his Instagram stories, where he shared a ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie ... early in the sport's history, it was the first time UCLA's football team had ever been ranked. However, the very next day, Robinson suffered ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months in October after admitting to breaching a High Court injunction that barred him from repeating libellous claims about a ...

January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...

Robinson wrote on X on Friday that he was sharing “an important life update” and that he and his family were “turning the page.” “Costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my ...

Mark Robinson is dropping his lawsuit against CNN ... His booming oratory style and humble biography — growing up in poverty with a single mom, losing his factory job to foreign outsourcing ...