holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major League Baseball debut in 1947, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, ...

Eig’s book, which has been reissued this month ... “In the fall of 1953, King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the World Series on a television ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today at age 98. STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006 Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental ...

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

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

Gene Kahane writes, "It seems this month, Black History Month, is the best time to look at race and sports because, to put it ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

A teammate later convinced Brown to attend a Dodgers tryout -- a decision that helped him land in the record books ... base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson ...

LINCOLNVILLE: King spoke at this church during the civil rights movement, as did Jackie Robinson. Hundreds or ... and converted the last remaining Green Book hotel from the Jim Crow days into ...

The Pulitzer Prizes praised the book as "a landmark biography [that ... A Life," "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season," and "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig." ...