Jackie Robinson statue stolen from a Wichita park

Jackie Robinson, baseball player, Boston Red Sox.

A Jackie Robinson statue was cut at the ankles and stolen from a public park in Wichita, Kansas. Robinson was among the first Black men to integrate Major League Baseball, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947(January 20, 2024). Wichita police said in a Facebook post that it went missing Thursday morning. The statue was cut…

Read More

Hundreds Attend Airman Roger Fortson’s funeral

Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson‘s family, friends, and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff’s deputy. People lined up well before the start of…

Read More