This is promising for the region considering that a CGMA research last year also highlighted that one in three finance professionals around the world have faced pressure to act unethically, said a media statement.
Lead Story. Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier. On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years.
Just this past spring, the Hall transported the plaques of Robinson and Larry Doby, the first African-American player in the American League, to Memphis, Tenn., for the second annual Civil Rights Game between the Chicago White Sox and the New York Mets, so that fans unable to get to Cooperstown could get a look at them.