Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...

On January 25, 2024, a bronze statue of famed baseball player and civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from League 42, a nonprofit baseball league for youth in Wichita, Kansas.

In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Black League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson ...

Most Wichitans, along with a whole lot of other people, already know the story of how League 42’s Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from McAdams Park where the nonprofit youth baseball league ...

Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, after a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, and a key contributor to the civil ...

The new film “42” chronicles and celebrates Jackie Robinson’s courage in integrating baseball. Less well known is Robinson’s off-the-field effort to combat prejudice of all stripes.

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier when he appeared in his first pro game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Halfway across the country, in the small city of ...