On Jan. 8, 1956, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Jackie Robinson the Spingarn Medal for his strong support of civil rights initiatives. The Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Jackie Robinson is known as the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in modern baseball ...

Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball and is a celebrated hero of the Civil Rights Movement ...

While regarded in the hierarchy of baseball immortality, this day in 2015 saw the Los Angeles Dodgers unveil details of a Jackie ... a statue of Robinson to be built by former Brooklyn resident ...

The U.S. House passed a bill this week that – with Senate approval, possibly Friday – would put Jackie ... is where Robinson – playing in Spring Training with the Brooklyn Dodgers' top ...

President Biden has signed a bill designating the Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida, a commemorative site ...

Think Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn Dodgers jersey from 1955, Michael Jordan’s teal jersey from the 1996 NBA All-Star game or Sidney Crosby’s light blue Pittsburgh Penguins jersey from the 2008 ...

A look back at the fifth day of January in sports history and elsewhere. We have popes, presidents and a Babe, among others ...

Brooklyn Dodgers baseball legend and Anderson native Carl Erskine died April 16 at Anderson Memorial Hospital. Erskine, 97, ...