NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Honoree Fanonne Jeffers about her new book Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.

Joe Hooks made his first PGA Tour start at the Rocket Classic last week. He missed the weekend but still was a shining ...

The best buddy cop movies have an odd-couple type of relationship: One doesn't play by the rules, the other is straitlaced.

The Alabama city that produced five Hall of Famers celebrates its baseball heritage with new statues. The moment was made ...

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their stories ...

Ebbets Field Flannels is paying tribute to the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson and the many untold stories of the Negro Leagues. Founded over 37 years ago Ebbets Field Flannels has a long ...

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 ...

Reportedly included in that bundle was a biography of Jackie Robinson. To date, the Robinson bio has not been purged, though 381 other books have been, but it appears to remain under consideration.

An article on Robinson’s military career was restored to the Defense Department’s website. It’s a reminder that we can beat back the racist right.

Robinson also played semi-pro football in Honolulu, Hawaii, before he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942, where he served as a second lieutenant in 761st Tank Battalion, an all-Black unit, from ...

More than $700,000 was raised for League 42, and MLB agreed to cover the costs of a brand-new statue of Robinson, which will be unveiled in a public ceremony at McAdams Park at 6 p.m. Monday to ...

Then, on April 11, 1947, Robinson signed a one-year, $5,000 contract to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His Dodgers deal, signed in duplicate, came with a page of regulations that Robinson also signed.