When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother, "If you want to get closer to heaven, visit California," she took her five children West in 1920. Jackie Robinson was the first to letter in ...

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 ...

West High's Bennie Horton was the NIC-10 all-conference quarterback. And coach Tom Schwalbach gave him extreme leeway to call ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... despite being shorter than many players at 5-foot-11. Robinson was West Coast Conference MVP in basketball for UCLA. In one game, on Feb ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter entered an order Monday restoring UCLA's access to Jackie Robinson Stadium through July 4 ...

ESPN reports that Langford joined Jackie Robinson as the only players in MLB ... 9.5 games out of first place in the American League West. They are also 8.5 games back of an AL Wild Card spot.