Jackie Robinson

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April 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Of the 30 MLB teams, 10 of them began the season with no more than one African-American…
April 15, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball is honoring Jackie Robinson and his legacy with tributes at every ballpark....
December 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A Jackie Robinson biopic is headed to theaters soon, and the fairly unknown up-and-coming actor Chadwick Boseman…
December 12, 2011
Hollywood has finally found its Jackie Robinson. Chadwick Boseman will play the iconic baseball star and civil rights pioneer in…
July 20, 2011
VIDEO - We are now in the thick of the season owned in large part by the boys of summer,…
July 12, 2011
REVIEW - I can only imagine what would professional sports would be like without Curtis Flood...
June 1, 2011
Legendary Pictures is developing and producing a film based on Jackie Robinson, the first African American Major League Baseball player...
May 12, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - It was Jackie Robinson's non-violent reaction to the hatred, boos, racist taunts and threatening letters that predated…
April 22, 2011
SLIDESHOW - From Negro leaguers of the past to the future Hall of Famers, African-Americans continue to make contributions to…
April 15, 2011
Jackie Robinson Day 2011 commemorates the 64th anniversary of his historic debut in Major League Baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers...
February 28, 2011
MONTREAL (AP) - After a spring training in the segregated South, newlywed Rachel Robinson went to look at an apartment…
February 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Michael Jackson rocked the Super Bowl, Jackie Robinson was born and Coretta Scott King passed away; this is…
November 24, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - President Obama is donating his proceeds from it to a scholarship fund for children of disabled…
October 21, 2010
OPINION - Jackie Robinson said his visits to Philadelphia were among "the most unpleasant days in my life, that brought…
June 28, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The 91-year-old Irvin, a Hall of Famer who became the first black player in Giants history…
April 15, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Everyone in uniform had Robinson's number on their jerseys Thursday, honoring the 63rd anniversary of the…
November 11, 2009
OPINION - The military, as an institution, is a reflection of the society that it serves. But is that reflection…
June 14, 2009
BRUCE MILES (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald SCHAUMBURG, Illl. (AP) — Louis Clarizio remembers riding the buses. He remembers seeing the