On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, died ... when Jackie Robinson became the ...

Robinson paved the way for the struggle of black people against racism and segregation. Martin Luther King Jr ... death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.