After a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States.

King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized ...

Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate Southern ... on the political process in the South, baseball great Jackie Robinson and other African Americans had been supporting ...

A new book from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shows the images and impacts of ...

Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement.” Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to be signed by a Major League baseball team, is shown in post-swing position in front of the stands.

It has always bothered me that Jackie Robinson – the great athlete and civil rights leader who grew up in ... But just as ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that ... He was an aggressive man, outraged at injustice, and quick to stand up for his rights. He had the guts to say no when ordered to the ...

Baseball has long been considered the great American pastime, though the sport’s vibrant history has not always welcomed all ...

The government eventually settled a civil rights ... Doris Robinson, Cleveland Sellers and H. Rap Brown launched the "Black Power" slogan, paving the way for a new phase of the freedom movement.

Organizers of a youth baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, unveiled a new Jackie Robinson statue Monday ... after the Brooklyn ...

An order from a federal judge to lockdown UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium is set to go into effect at noon Thursday. The stadium and other plots of land located on V.A. property in West Los Angeles ...

North Carolina’s scandal-ridden Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, once suggested that prominent civil rights leader the Reverend Al Sharpton should be shot. The Bulwark reports that ...