Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

A teammate later convinced Brown to attend a Dodgers tryout -- a decision that helped him land in the record books ... base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson ...

His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for ...

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Eig’s book, which has been reissued this month ... “In the fall of 1953, King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the World Series on a television ...

LINCOLNVILLE: King spoke at this church during the civil rights movement, as did Jackie Robinson. Hundreds or ... and converted the last remaining Green Book hotel from the Jim Crow days into ...

His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All ... More news: Dodgers' Brooklyn Native Who Welcomed Jackie Robinson Dies: Report While doctors advised La Russa to get treatment right away ...

The Pulitzer Prizes praised the book as "a landmark biography [that ... A Life," "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season," and "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig." ...