Animator Jason Fleurant's Exhibit Treal Studios earned the award for an episode of its children's educational series Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz that paid homage to Jackie Robinson’s sports and ...
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Robinson’s granddaughter Ayo Robinson, sociologist and civil rights activist Harry Edwards and Jackie Robinson Foundation scholars are also set to attend what the Dodgers call a “team ...
Sunday, or Jan. 31, is a historic date for the world of sports, and American society in general, as it marked 102 years since the birth of Jackie ... for civil rights. In honor of Robinson ...
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to ... working towards economic empowerment for blacks. But as the civil rights movement he had once seemed to embody became more militant, its ...