Jackie Robinson’s Fight Didn’t End at the Ballpark

Jackie Robinson’s Fight Didn’t End at the Ballpark

Each year on April 15, the day he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, every player in every game wears Jackie Robinson’s jersey number 42. Robinson, however, warned long ago that Black progress in America is not measured in tributes or ceremonies, but in political and economic power — “the ballot and the buck.”  Nearly eight decades after he stepped onto Ebbets Field, Robinson’s warning still echoes. The ongoing dismantling of voti…