Jackie Robinson Article Removed from Defense Department Website, Raising Concerns

Really? We’re we fighting about Jackie Robinson?

There was some personal debate over whether or not to delve into the cesspool that is American politics. After all, given the current political climate, it doesn’t matter the side or logic someone brings to the table, it always leads to vitriol and petulant behavior. But every so often, a topic comes up on Twitter, a place where proper discussion goes to die, that deserves to be brought up. So even though politics won’t make its way into the spo…

A note from the publisher: The details of Trump’s DEI purge prove it’s all about white supremacy

For the last couple of decades, a Jackie Robinson poster has been on the wall above my desk. In addition to a photo of the Brooklyn Dodgers/civil rights icon, the poster includes the definition of courage: cour•age n. 1. The mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. 2. Valor. In elementary school, I read a biography about Jackie Robinson—and to say it left an impression would be an understatement.…

Pentagon Restores Purged Jackie Robinson Article After Outcry

“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson,” said a representative two hours after defending the deletion as a strike against “woke cultural Marxism.”

Letter: Jackie Robinson revictimized

Jackie Robinson is a baseball hero, a war hero and a civil rights activist. During WW2, Jackie served in the 761st Tank Battalion and then became the first black baseball player to be permitted to play in Major League baseball,…

LEONARD GREENE: Jackie Robinson military history restored to Defense Dept. site, but damage already done

Before Rosa Parks changed history by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus, a righteous Black Army lieutenant was court martialed for taking the same stand in Texas. His name: Jackie Robinson. Robinson is best known, of course, for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947. But on July 6, 1944, Robinson refused a driver’s order to move to the back of an Army bus. Although he was acquitted of the six counts against him, includi…

Why conservatives are obsessed with erasing history—except the Confederacy

The Trump administration has spent the last month on a tear, using President Donald Trump’s newfound power in multiple departments and agencies for a goal that seems bewildering at first glance: deleting history. Under the guise of eliminating...