"Jackie Robinson's ... it often is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven years before the Supreme Court ...

Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...

Facing racism and discrimination everywhere, Robinson refused to give in, defying Jim Crow segregation in Pasadena and, as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, standing up for his rights when ...

a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday. He was 98. He died of natural ...

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.

Brown debuted at age 16 during the 1944 campaign, at a time when key players across the league were enrolled in military service ... alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say ...

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the military and seven ...