In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

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

Eugene Robinson writes a column on politics and culture and hosts an online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Washington Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Harris's photographs, which capture Black life in mid-20th-century America, are now the subject of a permanent exhibit at the ...

The documentary, made by The Wichita Eagle, tells the story of the theft of League 42’s Jackie Robinson statue.

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

On Oct. 28, 1962, the three major television networks interrupted their scheduled programs to broadcast a special report on ...

MUHAMMAD ALI  Thursday, February 6 2025 at 9 pm on WOUB **** Round Four: The Spell Remains (1974-2016) The whole world ...

My father was an actor for a while, and when he read to me from Kipling, you could hear something of the actor he had been in his voice. He relished the cadences of those stories. Was he remembering ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie ... early in the sport's history, it was the first time UCLA's football team had ever been ranked. However, the very next day, Robinson suffered ...