Reginald F. Lewis, a New York lawyer turned entrepreneur, made history by building the first Black-owned billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International. His journey from humble beginnings to ...

President Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of Kobe Bryant, ...

Jackie Robinson wasn’t just a baseball legend—he was a trailblazer, a man of resilience, and someone who appreciated the ...

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 ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

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 ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all — of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball.

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.

But one key piece of baseball history is off the market right now and is instead in the hands of U.S. marshals: the contract signed by Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball’s color barrier. L.A. Times ...

Bed-Stuy residents started a Change.org petition in mid-January to try to get the commissioner to open the tennis courts.

The Jackie Robinson is a 500-seat passenger ferry named in honor of the Brooklyn Dodgers legend and civil rights icon. New York Waterway officials, along with the Jackie Robinson Foundation and ...