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Jackie Robinson Museum Opening in New York, 75 Years After He Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Jackie Robinson Museum, honoring the Brooklyn Dodgers legend and his legacy 75 years after he...
Man Arrested for Stealing Jackie Robinson Statue, Leaving Only Feet Behind
People via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMore arrests are expected to come, said Wichita Police Department Chief Joe Sullivan Travis...
Jackie Robinson’s legacy looms in tonight’s All Star game. It’s also his wife’s 100th birthday
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoLOS ANGELES (AP) — The legacy of Jackie Robinson showed in Major League Baseball’s draft, with four...
Did racism kill Jackie Robinson?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoMajor league baseball opens today, and few are likely to give race a thought. When Jackie Robinson integrated MLB in 1947, it was a far different story....
Community raises enough to replace vandalized Jackie Robinson statue
Newsy via AOL· 3 months agoArchive photo of the Jackie Robinson statue. Days after a missing statue honoring MLB great Jackie...
MLB, baseball teams to replace vandalized Jackie Robinson statue
CBS News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe MLB and its 30 clubs will replace the vandalized Jackie Robinson statue that was burglarized and...
For Stanley Nelson, Baseball Proved That Desegregation Had a Chance
Esquire via AOL· 2 years agoStanley Nelson may not be as popular as Spike Lee or Ken Burns. That’s okay. Because, to some,...
Jackie Robinson statue found burned and in pieces after it was cut off at the ankles in Wichita
NBC News via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe search is over for a stolen statue of baseball’s barrier-breaking star, but investigators in...
Donations pour in to replace destroyed Jackie Robinson statue on his 105th birthday
theGrio via AOL· 3 months agoMajor League Baseball pledged support. And the total raised just through one online fundraiser to...
Before Stephen A. Smith and other Black sports journalists, there was the great Sam Lacy
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoIn February for Black History Month, USA TODAY Sports is publishing the series “28 Black Stories in...