Assuming a Leadership Role with an Eye on the Future
Entering her junior year at Spellman College in Atlanta, Geogia, JRF Scholar and 2024 Spike Lee Youth Motivation Award winner Kayla Brown, majoring in Biology…
October 8, 2024
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From Mentee to Mentor
It’s safe to say that JRF Alumnus and MIT graduate Keith Bevans ’95 is a wunderkind. As a kid, he was an electronics whiz tinkering…
October 8, 2024
This Month in History: October
October is always a transitional month in baseball and off the field, bringing the change of season and the “Fall Classic” a.k.a., the World Series….
October 8, 2024
From Adversity to Advocacy
JRF alumna Ashley D. Williams ’12 emerged from the adversity of being raised in the foster care system to a career path of advocacy for…
September 4, 2024
This Month in History: September
Jackie Robinson’s first September in Major League Baseball was rife with the drama commensurate with being the modern era’s first Black player in a highly…
September 4, 2024
See It, Be It
On June 6, 2024, the Jackie Robinson Museum hosted Women in Soccer, the second installment of its Leveling the Playing Field program series underwritten by…
September 4, 2024
The Real Thing
A long time Jackie Robinson Foundation partner, for nearly 40 years the Coca-Cola Company has remained engaged with JRF in a variety of ways. The…
September 4, 2024
It All Began At Freedom National Bank
A pillar of the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) and one of its four original founders, Marty Edelman’s likeness is etched indelibly onto the figurative Mount…
September 4, 2024
JRF Welcomes 50th Class of Scholars
Milestone Class of 2028 Represents 23 States at 43 Colleges and Universities Representing a half-century’s worth of accumulative accomplishment and following in the footsteps of…
September 4, 2024
The Real Thing
Coca-Cola’s Collaboration with JRF Continues to Have a Lasting Impact A long time Jackie Robinson Foundation partner, for nearly 40 years the Coca-Cola Company has…
September 1, 2024