Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for the Arts.

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 ...

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.

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

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 ...

The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker.

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.

(AP) – Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.

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 ...