The Dodger was a class act, no matter who was watching.

The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.

On June 14, in Clayton, N.C., about 43 miles east of the Duke campus, celebrated actor and university professor Mike Wiley, ...

But standing up for Jackie Robinson should not be a subversive or controversial stance, especially for the Dodgers and MLB. Robinson is more than a baseball icon. He’s an American hero.

Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1947 and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. On January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...

On Jackie Robinson Day in 2022, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “What he did was incredible, but we’ve got to do him right by keep going.”. On Jackie Robinson Day in 2023 ...

Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson Day lands in the middle of Trump's anti-DEI plot, which seeks to eliminate talk of pioneering Black heroism.