Keyshawn Johnson's new limited series "LA Legends" celebrates sports, music and cultural figures from the Los Angeles area.

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted out to first base for the Dodgers at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, erasing the unofficial color line that had stood in big league baseball for nearly 60 years ...

The Department of Defense disgraced itself by deleting a bio of Robinson and then using him to rant about DEI. The post Pentagon’s Jackie Robinson erasure underscores why we fight for all ...

Jackie Robinson is the ultimate American hero in a class by himself of not only athletes, but of all Americans. He was a four-sport athlete with high academic success and he served our country in ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

On June 14, in Clayton, N.C., about 43 miles east of the Duke campus, celebrated actor and university professor Mike Wiley, ...

Sunny Chang: I hope people realize that Jackie Robinson’s impact goes so far beyond baseball. He wasn’t just an athlete — he was a leader, a civil rights advocate, a businessman, and a ...

Here are 42 facts to celebrate the legendary athlete. 1. Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia but raised in California. Jack "Jackie" Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia.

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...

DOD removed, then restored, article about Jackie Robinson in anti-DEI 'content refresh' The article was about the pioneering Black athlete's time in the U.S. Army.

To know anything about Jackie Robinson — the civil rights leader, businessman, columnist, political adviser and all-galaxy athlete who desegregated and then dominated American baseball — is to ...