The Suffolk and the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force present the second installment of “Black History On Screen.” ...
There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...
Baseball broadcasts and equipment are scarce ... While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent to less than 8 percent, hardly any have come from the African ...
When we contemplate the past, quite often some things are particularly hard for us to fathom or even understand. When one ...
They were the first African-American baseball players to play in Japan. Mackey and the group showcased their skills and became quite popular with the fans and local Japanese figures. They were ...
Born in Calvert, Texas to an American Methodist Episcopal minister and his wife in 1879, Foster became a baseball star, and as a young man gained the reputation as one of the hardest throwing pitchers ...
This week, NY Waterway christened a new 500-seat passenger ferry as the "Jackie Robinson," after the first African-American baseball player to join the major leagues (and arguably New York’s ...
“Robinson is actually named after Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the MLB,” Livingstone said. “We loved the story. In my lineage, we actually have African ...