Even baseball great Jackie Robinson isn’t safe from getting labeled “DEI.” The military history of Robinson — who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 after serving as a second ...

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said he thinks the hiring of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is an example of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) amid backlash surrounding the removal of ...

On March 18, 2025, ESPN baseball columnist Jeff Passan made an X post (archived) claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense removed a page about the U.S. Army career of baseball legend Jackie ...

IS TRACKING ALL THOSE DEVELOPMENTS. HE’S LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM RIGHT NOW. WELL, JACKIE ROBINSON’S PAGE AND OTHERS, THEY ARE NOW RESTORED. BUT ALL DAY IT LED TO QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SUCH AN ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo ...

An article dedicated to baseball legend Jackie Robinson's accomplishments and background serving in the U.S. military was taken down from the Department of Defense website and has seemingly been ...

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UPDATE: Pentagon restores Jackie Robinson page, calls removal amid DEI purge a mistake A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military ...

March 19 (UPI) --An article about baseball icon Jackie Robinson's military history was "mistakenly removed" from the Department of Defense website due to search terms used to scrub diversity ...

Jeff Passan commented about the missing article, “Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier,” on X late Tuesday night. Minnesota state senator resigns after ...

The Department of Defense has restored a story dedicated to the Army history of Jackie Robinson, who defiantly opposed racism in the military before breaking baseball's color barrier, on its website.

One of the three eaglets that recently hatched in the nest of Southern California's famous bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow has died, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley. "We are sad to let ...