A longtime Coloradan and trailblazing musician widely considered the Jackie Robinson of classical music, Burrell died early Tuesday morning in Denver from natural causes. He was 104 years old. Family ...

Charles Burrell, an American classical and jazz bass player known as being the first African American to be a member of a major U.S. symphony, the Colorado Symphony, died Tuesday at the age of ...

Dave Parker embodied the Negro Leagues. His swag, flair and ebullient demeanor on the baseball diamond conjured images of the showman.

Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

Murals honoring groundbreaking MLB Hall of Famers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso were defaced with racial slurs and swastikas in Miami this week. The Miami Police Department was notified of ...

<p>A decade before Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott, two decades before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed "I Have a Dream," a signature event in the struggle for racial equality ...

Charles Burrell, the classical and jazz bass player and the first African-American member of a major American symphony, died early Tuesday at age 104. His passing was confirmed by Burrell's cousin ...

The Associated Press reported Thursday afternoon that a mural of UCLA Bruin legend Jackie Robinson and fellow Negro Leagues icon Minnie Miñoso was defaced in Miami. The artwork that honors ...

Baseball fans are mourning the loss of Hall of Famer David Gene Parker, also known as Dave Parker, who died on Saturday at ...

The “Jackie Robinson of classical music” and former Denver Symphony Orchestra bassist called Colorado home for much of his ...

Defacing of two murals in Overtown’s Dorsey Park — Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso — speaks of racist hate. But love will prevail, Bea Hines says.