Jackie Robinson

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April 16, 2025
Every team playing Monday wore No. 42 jerseys in honor of Jackie Robinson. It's the only number universally retired in…
Defense Department, Defense Department Jackie Robinson theGrio.com
March 20, 2025
Pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were taken down — the Pentagon said that…
February 14, 2024
A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut down and found…
February 1, 2024
Major League Baseball pledged support. And the total raised just through one online fundraiser to replace the statue surpassed $145,000.
January 30, 2024
Fire crews found the burned remnants of a prized statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen last week from a park in…
July 26, 2022
The Jackie Robinson Museum, dedicated to the career and activism of the late baseball legend, opens in New York City…
July 19, 2022
Jackie Robinson’s legacy will loom large over Tuesday’s All-Star game at Dodger Stadium.
Tim Anderson of the Chicago White Sox and Josh Donaldson of the New York Yankees
May 23, 2022
If fair treatment in life-and-death issues meant accepting verbal abuse, I’d listen. But we know life doesn’t work that way.
May 22, 2022
Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said he talked to Donaldson after Saturday’s game and believed his player’s explanation for why he said it.
May 21, 2022
White Sox manager Tony La Russa also called Yankees slugger Josh Donaldson’s comment to White Sox star shortstop Tim Anderson,…
Baseball player Jackie Robinson, thegrio.com
April 15, 2022
April 15 marks the 75th anniversary of Robinson smashing Major League Baseball’s color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn…
April 11, 2022
Emmett Ashford described the moment he umpired his first game in 1966 as the thrill of his life, though he…
March 30, 2022
"Jackie to Me" clips begin April 4, with vignettes daily through April 15, celebrating the legacy of Robinson and his…
Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson
March 3, 2022
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and league owners obviously don’t give a damn about the sport, its players or…
February 11, 2022
LaKeesha Morrison told theGrio that the response to her "Black History is American History" exhibit "has been nothing but positive."
Jackie Robinson thegrio.com
January 30, 2022
Major League Baseball has helped replace a Jackie Robinson memorial marker that was shot repeatedly by vandals in early 2021.
Barry Bonds theGrio
January 26, 2022
Hypocrisy runs rampant throughout the fabric of the United States, and the national pastime is no exception.
December 6, 2021
Pro baseball pioneers Buck O'Neil, Bud Fowler, and Minnie Miñoso are set to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall…
Viola Davis
February 7, 2021
Viola Davis recounted the moment when the NFL broke its unofficial color barrier that had kept Black players out of…
October 12, 2020
"In my nearly five decades of public service," Fauci told CNN, "I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate."