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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

What the fight against DEI is all about

Heather Digby Parton
A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jackie Robinson was a radical

Peter Dreier - The Conversation
Chadwick Boseman at the 91st Academy Awards (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

What Chadwick Boseman means to us

Melanie McFarland
Jackie Robinson (AP)

Jackie Robinson didn't stand either

Heather Digby Parton
Yawkey Way and Brookline Ave. (Getty/Ezra Shaw)

Red Sox to rename Yawkey Way?

Rachel Leah
FILE - In this April 15, 1947, file photo, from left, Brooklyn Dodgers baseball players John Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, Ed Stanky and Jackie Robinson pose at Ebbets Field in New York. The first statue in Dodger Stadium history belongs to Jackie Robinson. The team will unveil his likeness during Jackie Robinson Day festivities on Saturday, April 15, 2017, with his wife and extended family in attendance on the 70th anniversary of him breaking baseball's color barrier (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Michael Stahl - Narratively

PBS Jackie Robinson

Presented by PBS
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

The "lonely" black Republican

Elias Isquith
The Baseball Project (Yep Roc/Michael E. Anderson)

Baseball's greatest songs

Stephen Deusner
Ted Williams (AP/Ted Sande)

Baseball's unsung racial hero

Allen Barra
Jason Collins fights to the basket against Chicago Bulls' Taj Gibson, April 17, 2013. (Reuters/Jim Young)

Collins is no Jackie Robinson

Daniel D'Addario
Jackie Robinson poses in 1952. (AP)

Who's the gay Jackie Robinson?

Andrew O'Hehir
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Cyd Zeigler - Outsports
Martina Navratilova, Jesse Owens, Brendon Ayanbadejo. (AP)

Where are the brave athletes?

Allen Barra
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