The 78th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of Major League Baseball’s color barrier centered on the Los Angeles Dodgers, as it always does. But on Tuesday, the league’s annual commemoration also served as a flashpoint of President Donald Trump’s quest to eliminate diversity,

From Jack Harris: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Robinson’s legacy is as important now as it has ever been. And on Tuesday, as the guest speaker at the Dodgers’ annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, he made the reason he believes so abundantly clear.

Abdul-Jabbar told stories about becoming a Brooklyn Dodger fan at a young age because of Robinson and getting to meet him later in life. “Jack always had the idea that he was an equal human being