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 ...
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 ...
The U.S. Naval Academy faces backlash for flagging Jackie Robinson’s biography amid a DEI policy shift, sparking concerns.
An article covering Jackie Robinson's military history was removed and later restored on the Pentagon's website last week.
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 ...
For me, Jackie Robinson was one of the first people that I knew was a hero. His time in the Army in the 1940s and then being the Black player in modern Major League Baseball should have granted ...
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 ...
Yes, that Jackie Robinson. His military service during World War II was flushed down the Orwellian memory hole some time on Tuesday. We think it was Tuesday. An ESPN reporter noticed that Jackie ...
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 ...
On Wednesday, MLB great Jackie Robinson became the talk of the town after the US Department of Defense (DoD) removed his military page amid the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) purge. Following ...