East End Arts presents large-scale mosaic portraits of prominent figures in the civil rights movement created by Long Island ...

A top college coach is signing one of the largest and top classes, but he's hardly unique across the college football landscape.

Janna Jahn spent years of her life trying to find a way to preserve an old baseball field that she learned to believe is more revered around the country than it is in Chattanooga, where it barely ...

The game between the Jupiter Hammerheads and the Palm Beach Cardinals is April 15, the day Jackie Robinson debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to ...

When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey met Jackie Robinson in 1945 to recruit him as Major League Baseball’s first black player, he tested Robinson’s resolve. He unleashed a barrage of ...

Howard Bryant's newest book focuses on how Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson became opposing voices amid the anti-communist ...

Author Howard Bryant juxtaposes the politics and power of the two men in “Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to sportswriter Howard Bryant about Bryant's latest book "Kings and Pawns." ...

An article about Jackie Robinson’s service in the Army was scrubbed from the Department of Defense website on Wednesday and later restored after a DOD official told ABC News that it had been ...

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: "M(other) Tongues" at the Central Library Art Gallery; a community knitting circle; ...