Antiques Roadshow expert Jasmani Francis was left stunned when he was shown a series of letters from baseball legend Jackie ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in pro baseball, Robinson was the Rookie of the Year, the National League MVP, the NL batting champion ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

There are newspaper and magazine articles, Nike commercials, a massive campaign in baseball with every ball and uniform emblazoned with a special Jackie Robinson logo, a short film by Spike Lee that ...

Animator Jason Fleurant's Exhibit Treal Studios earned the award for an episode of its children's educational series Peanut Headz: Black History Toonz that paid homage to Jackie Robinson’s sports and ...

Baseball helped Earl Weaver open his mind. This is how Frank Robinson becomes the sport’s first Black manager.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...