February also marked the month of Robinson’s death in 2019. Robinson died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles. That same week, Jackie Robinson’s daughter Sharon, an educator and author of children ...

Mel Gregory, a well-known figure in Wichita's sporting community and a dedicated supporter of League 42, died on Thursday ...

While Jackie Robinson would go on to break Major League ... who came from the same group of African-Americans who fought and died for the United States in World War II. As a result, Washington ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier ... His father, Sylvester, who died last August, was a well-known jockey in Louisiana. Among his mounts was Hallowed Dreams, a ...

“I had been looking for the individual that I felt could be the Jackie Robinson of business ... Tragically, Lewis’s life was cut short when he died of brain cancer in 1993 at the age of ...

Singer Roberta Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She won two Record of the Year Grammys in a row in the 1970's with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song." ...

Until his death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years later, baseball is finally paying tribute to a man who at one time was unwanted. Although these ...

Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s wife, established the foundation in 1973 following the death of her husband. The foundation gives four-year scholarships to minority students who demonstrate a need ...

WEST POINT — Angelia Rena Robinson, 53, died Feb. 19, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Pleasant Grove Pool’s M.B. Church ...

1941 - Grace Comiskey is elected president of the Chicago White Sox following the death of her husband J ... Bud Selig announces that Major League Baseball will celebrate “Jackie Robinson Day” in ...