Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before ... I had been treated," Robinson wrote in “My Own Story,” his autobiography published in 1972. "Greeting us warmly, they let us ...

Jonathan Eig is the New York Times bestselling author of six books, including Ali: A Life, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie ...

Mal Goode was the first black, network correspondent and Pittsburgh native is the subject of a brand new biography.

The NBA, for the 39 th year, will play games on MLK Day; on the same day, for only the second time, the presidential ...

King and Robinson had “a very important relationship,” Eig said. “First of all, Jackie Robinson integrates baseball while King is still a teenager. Everybody is influenced by Jackie Robinson.

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...