"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that of baseball. He was a transforming agent and in the face of such hostility and such meanness and violence, he did it with such amazing dignity.

"The city of Daytona Beach is proud to be the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement via Jackie Robinson's historic integration of America's pastime," Mayor Derrick Henry said in a text ...

The bronze cleats from a Jackie Robinson statue that was cut ... will be displayed alongside a historical marker from Robinson's birthplace in Cairo, Georgia -- a marker that was damaged by ...

SportsCentury: Disciples of Jackie Robinson celebrates Black History Month by tracing the plight of the African-American players who came after Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color ...