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 ...
President Donald Trump announced the creation of the National Garden of American Heroes during a Black History Month ceremony at the White House. The outdoor statue park will honor iconic American ...
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s was initiated greatly, from the actions of Black World War II veterans. Jackie Robinson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Before the ...
President Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson.
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 ...
Johnson, and Max Robinson. While there’s a push to add more ... Black students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The Little Rock Nine sounds like it could be the name of a baseball team playing in Arkansas' capital city, and for three ...
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.
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson ... should fight for equal rights. After taking the abuse without retaliation for a while, Robinson spoke out. He demanded respect from his ...