Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...
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Who was Jim Becker? AP Journalist who covered Jackie Robinson's Major League debut dies at 98
Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...
Newsman Jim Becker covered world’s monumental events and touched hearts in Hawaii
COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...
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From Rube Foster to Minnie Miñoso: Chicago's Black baseball trailblazers
Spring training is underway for Chicago's baseball teams, both of which have played significant roles in the history of ...
19 Black trailblazers that may not have been in your history book
While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...
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Black Altadenans seek hope and resilience in the wake of the LA wildfires
Two weeks after the Eaton Fire, hundreds were gathered at Robinson Park Recreation Center for Dena Love ... They were marking ...
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Art in the Parks Honoring the Black Experience
McNair who died aboard the Challenger space shuttle when it exploded ... This sculptural bust honors Robinson who in 1947 broke the "color barrier" in Major League Baseball when he played for the ...
Walter Robinson, Exuberant Art-World Participant and Observer, Dies at 74
A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of ...
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How Jackie Robinson made history, and Whitney Houston in concert | Passport Picks
In a continued celebration of Black History Month, our first pick this week is Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose ...
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Walter Robinson, sharp-eyed painter and critic, has died, aged 74
The artist and writer Walter Robinson—known for creating bright and dryly humourous paintings, and for writing incisive and sometimes irreverent musings on the New York art world—has died ...