Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots ...

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

In a career that dates back to the 1970s, Ivan Nahem has written and performed music that defies convention. The vocalist and ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

It's possible, though unconfirmed, that it was Stengel, a Kansas City native, who recommended several of the ... Wilkinson’s son, Richard, said Moore was every bit as good as Jackie Robinson. When a ...

It’s tongue and cheek, of course. But that same sentiment can be said, in a more serious tone, about Black history: It cannot ...

Frank Duncan played baseball in the Negro Leagues with the Kansas City Monarchs for more than 20 years and was known as a dynamic catcher and explosive base runner. File The Kansas City Star ...

The minor league baseball team, the Kansas City Monarchs, plays in KCK, and the Mavericks hockey team calls the Missouri suburb of Independence home. The newest Chiefs Zone installment greets ...

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

Drue Tranquill with his wife Jackie Tranquill. Drue Tranquill and his wife, Jackie Tranquill, have a love story as old as ...

Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... correspondents and walking around a city abandoned by opposing troops.