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 ...

Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...

Dressed in all-black and wearing some glossy black lipstick and eyeshadow, Lambert performed “I Don’t Care Much,” the ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...

With a swing, Gibson reportedly belted a home run out of the park, the ball bouncing onto the ... Negro Leagues teams played ...

Jackie Olling swapped Darlinghurst for London ... which is cheaper than their New York home, but each take home 40 per cent more than they did in Australia. Since moving to New York, Ritchie ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...

Mark Robinson, the former North Carolina lieutenant governor whose scandal-plagued candidacy doomed his gubernatorial bid last year, is dropping his libel lawsuit against CNN. Weeks before the ...

“I will not run next year, nor do I have plans to seek elected office in the future,” said Robinson. open image in gallery Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina Mark Robinson made a series of ...

Governor is dropping his lawsuit against CNN. Robinson added that he’s not going to run for office in the future. Channel 9′s Joe Bruno learned the developments on Friday. Robinson had sued ...