Defense Department Removes And Swiftly Restores Web Page About Jackie Robinson

LOADING ERROR LOADING A web page dedicated to Black baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson was removed and quickly restored on the Department of Defense’s website. “Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee airmen, the Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others – we salute them for their strong and in many cases heroic service to our country, full stop,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot told HuffPost. Robinson’s page on the Defense Department website was published in February 2021 as part of a series titled “Sports Heroes Who Served” and has since been restored. “We were surprised to learn that a page on the Department of Defense’s website featuring Jackie Robinson among sports heroes who served in the military was taken down,” said David Robinson, a board member of the Jackie Robinson Foundation.