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Congratulations to Chadwick Boseman, AfrAm, and his new fiance Taylor Simone Ledward, Japanese and AfrAm. Chadwick, of course, is the superstar AfrAm actor who will likely forever be known for playing T'Challa, in Black Panther! Indeed his acting credits run very deep and he has played many iconic figures including Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall. Chadwick and Taylor have been dating since 2015 and while they typically keep a low profile, several outlets are now reporting their recent engagement and expected wedding in 2020! We are very happy for Chadwick and Taylor and wish them a lifetime of joy and happiness! Many blessings!
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A quick look back at Red Sox v Orioles game on 4/15 for Getty Images. It was Jackie Robinson day, and a cold one with a few exciting plays at the plate.
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Last day of Black History Month and I’m celebrating and honoring the amazing, very talented, the late Chadwick Bozeman. He was an American actor and playwright. After studying directing at Howard University, he became prominent in theater, winning a Drama League Directing Fellowship and an acting AUDELCO, and being nominated for a Jeff Award as a playwright for Deep Azure. Transitioning to the screen, he landed his first major role as a series regular on Persons Unknown in 2010, and his breakthrough performance came in 2013 as baseball player Jackie Robinson in the biographical film 42. He continued to portray historical figures, starring in Get on Up (2014) as singer James Brown and Marshall (2017) as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Boseman achieved international fame for playing superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) from 2016 to 2019. He appeared in four MCU films, including an eponymous 2018 film that earned him an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. As the first black actor to headline an MCU film, he was also named in the 2018 Time 100. In 2016, Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer. Boseman kept his condition private, continuing to act until his death from complications related to the illness in August 2020. He extensively supported cancer charities publicly and privately, as well as giving to organizations that support disadvantaged children. His final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, was released posthumously in 2020 to critical acclaim. At the 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards Boseman received four nominations, for his work in Ma Rainey as well as Da 5 Bloods, breaking the record for most nominations for an actor in a single night. RIP . #WakandaForever
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This transition touched me differently. Secretly fighting his own personal battle for years while delivering his amazing talents on screen and becoming a beautiful, symbolic black man in power fighting for justice while discovering himself, expanding his culture, and finding his purpose, he became a leader right before our eyes.
Goodness! So much of me wants to believe that he still just fell off the cliff and floated away, but he’s recovering and will return and surprise us all.
April 15, 1947, was an opening day like no other at Ebbets Field. Jackie Robinson made his historic Major League debut—the first African-American player in modern baseball history. With him in the Dodgers’ dugout are Spider Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, and Eddie Stanky.
Photo: National Baseball Hall of Fame Library/MLB via Getty Images
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Today, we are all No. 42
Today is Jackie Robinson Day. On April 15, 1947, Robinson became the first black player in Major League Baseball. His team: the Dodgers. So, to honor him, every Dodger will be No. 42 – Robinson’s number, which has since been retired from the league.
Over the years, he’s been honored and memorialized across Los Angeles, as the photos above show. After all, Jackie Robinson was a hometown guy, raised in Pasadena. He went to John Muir High School and earned an athletic scholarship to UCLA.
Baseball wasn’t his only sport. Jackie Robinson excelled in football, basketball and track as well. He was the national long jump champ in 1940, a football All-America in 1941 and the basketball team’s highest scorer. He became the first student athlete in UCLA history to letter in four sports.
After serving three years in World War II as a cavalry lieutenant and returned to sign with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League.
Back then, the Dodgers were in Brooklyn, N.Y. Team president Branch Rickey chose Robinson off the roster of the Kansas City Monarchs, warning him that it wouldn’t be easy.
“I want a man with guts enough not to fight back,” Rickey said.
“I’ve got two cheeks – is that what you want to hear?“ Robinson replied.
During his rookie season with the Dodgers, Robinson had plenty of opportunities to turn the other cheek. Over time, through his dignity and restraint, the taunts, the slurs, turned to praise.
And though he didn’t say much that first year, he was vocal during the rest of his career.
“I’m a human being,” he said. “I have a right to my opinions. I have a right to talk.”
He died in 1972. In his obit in the L.A. Times (which you can read here), he was described as “the grandson of a slave, a man who emerged from a small house on Pepper Street in Pasadena to become one of the nation’s greatest athletes and a symbol of hope for Black America.”
Just outside Pasadena’s city hall, you can visit a memorial to two great city sons – Olympian Mack Robinson and his younger brother, Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson.
Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Giants at home. Today, we are all No. 42.
Archival photos by Los Angeles Times
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
‒ Jackie Robinson
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Learn About Mack Robinson, Olympic Silver Medalist, Community Activist and Jackie’s Older Brother (LISTEN)
Learn About Mack Robinson, Olympic Silver Medalist, Community Activist and Jackie’s Older Brother (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
In yesterday’s daily drop we celebrated sports legend Jackie Robinson. But did you know his older brother Mack Robinson had his own claim to sports fame?
Matthew Mackenzie “Mack” Robinson was an outstanding track and field athlete who won the silver medal in the 200-meter event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing just four tenths of a second behind…
Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball 75 Years Ago #OnThisDay
Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball 75 Years Ago #OnThisDay
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson)
Seventy five years ago today, Jackie Robinson made sports and U.S. history when he took to the infield as a Brooklyn Dodger against the Boston Braves and integrated Major League Baseball.
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remembering Chadwick Boseman.
may his soul rest in everlasting peace.
Jackie Robinson speaking to reporters in Birmingham, Alabama, May 14, 1963
Marion Trikosko, photographer
Library of Congress
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Celebrating Black History Month: Jackie Robinson – First African American to play in Major League Baseball
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. They were the only black family on their block, and the prejudice they encountered only strengthened their bond. From this humble beginning would grow the first baseball player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier that segregated the sport for more than 50 years.
Growing up in a large, single-parent family, Jackie excelled early at all sports and learned to make his own way in life. At UCLA, Jackie became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: baseball, basketball, football and track. In 1941, he was named to the All-American football team. Due to financial difficulties, he was forced to leave college and eventually decided to enlist in the U.S. Army. After two years in the army, he had progressed to second lieutenant. Jackie’s army career was cut short when he was court-martialed in relation to his objections with incidents of racial discrimination. In the end, Jackie left the Army with an honorable discharge.
In 1945, Jackie played one season in the Negro Baseball League, traveling all over the Midwest with the Kansas City Monarchs. But greater challenges and achievements were in store for him. In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey approached Jackie about joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Major Leagues had not had an African-American player since 1889, when baseball became segregated. When Jackie first donned a Brooklyn Dodger uniform, he pioneered the integration of professional athletics in America. By breaking the color barrier in baseball, the nation’s preeminent sport, he courageously challenged the deeply rooted custom of racial segregation in both the North and the South.
At the end of Robinson’s rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he had become National League Rookie of the Year with 12 homers, a league-leading 29 steals, and a .297 average. In 1949, he was selected as the NL’s Most Valuable player of the Year and also won the batting title with a .342 average that same year. As a result of his great success, Jackie was eventually inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Jackie married Rachel Isum, a nursing student he met at UCLA, in 1946. As an African-American baseball player, Jackie was on display for the whole country to judge. Rachel and their three children, Jackie Jr., Sharon and David, provided Jackie with the emotional support and sense of purpose essential for bearing the pressure during the early years of baseball.
Jackie Robinson’s life and legacy will be remembered as one of the most important in American history. In 1997, the world celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Jackie’s breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. In doing so, we honored the man who stood defiantly against those who would work against racial equality and acknowledged the profound influence of one man’s life on the American culture. On the date of Robinson’s historic debut, all Major League teams across the nation celebrated this milestone. Also that year, The United States Post Office honored Robinson by making him the subject of a commemorative postage stamp. On Tuesday, April 15th, President Bill Clinton paid tribute to Jackie at Shea Stadium in New York in a special ceremony.
Source:https://www.jackierobinson.com
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“I do feel you must make it infinitely clear, that regardless of who demonstrates, that your position will not change toward the rights of all people … “ Jackie Robinson to LBJ, 4/18/1967.
Series: White House Subject Files on Human Rights, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969
Collection: White House Central Files (Johnson Administration), 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969
Transcription:
State of New York
Executive Chamber
Albany
Please Reply to
22 W. 55th Street
New York 10, New York
April 18, 1967
Dear Mr. President:
First, let me thank you for pursuing a course towards Civil Rights that no President in our history has pursued. I am confident your dedication will not only continue, but will be accelerated dependent on the needs of all Americans.
While I am certain your faith has been shaken by demonstrations against the Viet Nam war, I hope the actions of any one individual does not make you feel as Vice President Humphrey does, that Dr. King’s stand will hurt the Civil Rights movement. it would not be fair to the thousands of our Negro fighting men who are giving their lives because they believe, in most instances, that our Viet Nam stand is just. There are hundreds of thousands of us at home who are not certain why we are in the war. We feel, however, that you and your staff know what is best and we are willing to support your efforts for a honorable solution to the war.
I do feel you must make it infinitely clear, that regardless of who demonstrates, that your position will not change toward the rights of all people; that you will continue to press for justice for all Americans and that a strong stand now will have great effect upon young Negro Americans who could resort to violence unless they are reassured. Recent riots in Tennessee
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State of New York
Executive Chamber
Albany
Please Reply to
22 W. 55th Street
New York 10, New York
and Cleveland Ohio is warning enough. Your concern based on causes and not on whether it will hurt the Civil Rights effort, could have a wholesale effect on our youth.
I appreciate the difficult role any President has. I believe, also, yours is perhaps the most difficult any President has has. I hope God gives you the wisdom and strength to come through this crisis at home, and that an end to the war in Viet Nam is achieved very soon.
Again Sir, let me thank you for your domestic stand on Civil Rights. We need an even firmer stand as the issues become more personal and the gap between black and white Americans get wider.
Sincerely yours,
Jackie Robinson (signature)
Jackie Robinson
The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
The President of the United States
The White House
Washington 25, D.C.
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In April of 1947, the legendary Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers—just down the street at Ebbets Field—and became the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball.
Roberto Lugo’s work seen above, “Brooklyn Century Vase,” features a portrait of Robinson in uniform. Lugo presents an alternative to Karl Mueller’s “Century Vase” (1876, pictured second), replacing portraits of George Washington and other symbols with tributes to figures who, like Robinson, played a significant role in Brooklyn’s history.
Plan your visit to our Decorative Arts galleries to see these works.
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Roberto Lugo (born Philadelphia, 1981). “Brooklyn Century Vase,” 2019. Porcelain, china paint. H. Randolph Lever Fund, 2019.34. © Roberto Lugo → Karl L. H. Mueller (born Germany, 1820–1887). “Century Vase,” 1876. Porcelain. Gift of Carll and Franklin Chace, in memory of their mother, Pastora Forest Smith Chace, daughter of Thomas Carll Smith, the founder of the Union Porcelain Works, 43.25. Creative Commons-BY
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