League 42 was able to replace its statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen. The story of the theft is told in The Wichita Eagle’s new documentary “More Like Jackie.” ...

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 ...

The film tells the story of the theft of the Jackie Robinson statue from local youth baseball organization League 42. The Orpheum Theatre in Wichita will be the site on Saturday of the big screen ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Welcome to the Amsterdam News Family! I’m honored to be Amsterdam News‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me. We’ve been reporting the news of the day from a Black ...

The Jackie Robinson Museum highlights Robinson and ... the city is hosting a free screening of the powerful documentary "When Harlem Saved a King." The film chronicles Dr. King’s near-fatal ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.