Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play in Major League Baseball in decades. Robinson might not have been the most talented black baseball player at the

The African-American Community's Battle to Combat the U.S. Naval Academy's Legacy of Racism

A biography of the athlete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick pe

Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Broo