Organizations in Lufkin are coming together to bring local theater to elementary schools and the community in honor of Black History Month through the upcoming School Time Series production of “Jackie ...

Wiley portrays Robinson and other characters during the play, which chronicles the iconic athlete's experiences as the first ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on Friday, Jan. 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, where his family sharecropped. The ...

When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey met Jackie Robinson in 1945 to recruit him as Major League Baseball’s first black player, he tested Robinson’s resolve. He unleashed a barrage of ...

Melany Vasquez didn’t know much about Jackie Robinson. The eighth grader at Collins Middle School in Salem, Mass., had heard his name, knew he was a famous baseball player, knew he was important, but ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jackie Robinson was a passionate advocate for social and racial equality, and the Dodgers going to the White House ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. In Brooklyn, there’s a one-hundred-and-sixty-two-year-old building that stands ...

The world knows Jackie Robinson for being a pioneer in the sport of baseball. Without a doubt, he was that, but to limit his accomplishments to merely sports is almost […] ...

2015: Little League International took away the Jackie Robinson West team’s national championship, saying its officials knowingly fielded players who lived outside the team’s residential boundaries — ...

At the beginning of the Cold War in 1949, Jackie Robinson appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to disavow the comments of another prominent Black American, actor, singer and ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...