Antiques Roadshow expert Jasmani Francis was left stunned when he was shown a series of letters from baseball legend Jackie ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

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 ...

Three Bucknell University students in 1946 wanted nothing to do with the racial and ethnic discrimination embraced by most ...

Andre Dawson Classic, highlighting the baseball programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, will take place ...

The Andre Dawson Classic is the annual, round-robin collegiate baseball tournament designed by Major League Baseball to highlight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their ...

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

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.

In its celebration of Black History Month, MLB Network looks at the careers of Jackie Robinson and Mookie Betts and their ...

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 ...