An article highlighting the U.S. Army career of baseball legend Jackie Robinson has been restored to the Department of ...

The U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage about the military career of Black baseball legend Jackie Robinson in early 2025. Robinson is best known for breaking baseball's so-called color ...

IS TRACKING ALL THOSE DEVELOPMENTS. HE’S LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM RIGHT NOW. WELL, JACKIE ROBINSON’S PAGE AND OTHERS, THEY ARE NOW RESTORED. BUT ALL DAY IT LED TO QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SUCH AN IMPORTANT ...

Jackie Robinson is best known for breaking baseball’s color barrier, but a panel at the Jackie Robinson Museum on Thursday highlighted his earlier activism as a U.S. Army officer challenging ...

The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Department of Defense’s website as ...

The letters “dei” were also automatically added to the URL. “We were surprised to learn that a page on the Department of Defense’s website featuring Jackie Robinson among sports heroes who served in ...

The Pentagon has clarified the controversy behind the removal of Jackie Robinson’s military service story on the Department of Defense’s website. On Tuesday night, ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan noticed ...

An article on Robinson’s military career was restored to the Defense Department’s website. It’s a reminder that we can beat back the racist right. Jackie Robinson served in the US Army during World ...

On March 18, 2025, ESPN baseball columnist Jeff Passan made an X post (archived) claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense removed a page about the U.S. Army career of baseball legend Jackie ...